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paragraph_text: On June 6, 2025, protests erupted in Los Angeles after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided several city locations to arrest individuals allegedly involved in illegal immigration to the United States. Some protests turned into riots after protestors clashed with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and ICE, but most remained peaceful and occurred within a roughly five-block stretch of downtown Los Angeles.
  
  On June 7, protestors and federal law enforcement agents clashed in Paramount and Compton during raids. President Donald Trump responded by federalizing the California National Guard, calling for 2,000 guard members to deploy to the city under Joint Task Force 51. Protests have been organized and attended by multiple groups and unaffiliated protestors. On June 9, the president authorized the deployment of an additional 2,000 National Guard members, and the Pentagon activated 700 Marines to deploy to the city, who arrived the next day. Critics, including California governor Gavin Newsom (who has sued Trump over the federalization), described the military response as premature, inflammatory, for political gain, and authoritarian, creating debate about military response to protest versus controlling protest with police. A number of demonstrators have been arrested and multiple law enforcement officers and protesters have been injured.
  
  The anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles have inspired additional anti-ICE protests in other U.S. cities, such as New York, Chicago, and Dallas.