The region is home to one of the nation’s largest and oldest Hispanic communities, which underpins the economy.

When President Donald Trump put 2,000 National Guard troops under his control on Saturday night and ordered them into Los Angeles, it was billed as an urgent response to quell protests. But it was also a move long in the making.

In cases of so-called notario fraud, scammers pose as immigration lawyers to extract large sums from people who are confused about what a notary public does in the United States.

Protests, worker education, and lawsuits are just a few of the ways unions are preparing to advocate against the administration.

The president claimed, without giving evidence, that the protesters were “paid” agitators, that the Los Angeles police asked for the National Guard, and that swaths of the city were under gang control.

“The Biden Administration and Governor Newscum flooded America with 21 Million Illegal Aliens, destroying Schools, Hospitals and Communities, and consuming untold Billions of Dollars in Free Welfare,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, referring to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, with whom he’s feuding at the moment.

With Los Angeles reeling from immigration sweeps and unsettled by nightly clashes between protesters and police, Mayor Karen Bass was asked by a reporter: what she did she have to say to President Trump?

An escalating clash pits a Republican president looking to fulfill his mass deportation goals against a Democratic governor with White House aspirations hoping to mobilize opposition.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is promising to move forward with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.