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The California Report

National Guard Deployed As Protesters Clash With Law Enforcement

Keith Mizuguchi
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California Highway Patrol (CHP) cars, some damaged, are lined up along the 101 freeway after officers cleared protesters from the area on June 8, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Tensions in the city remain high after the Trump administration called in the National Guard against the wishes of city leaders following two days of clashes with police during a series of immigration raids. More protests are scheduled for today.  (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Here are the morning’s top stories on Monday, June 9, 2025…

  • Federal immigration sweeps that began Friday have prompted anger, protest and resistance from onlookers and immigrant rights groups that have braced for this type of action for months. Over the weekend, tensions continued to rise between state and local authorities and Trump administration officials, who said they were calling up the National Guard in response to what the White House said were “violent mobs” attacking “ICE Officers and Federal Law Enforcement Agents carrying out basic deportation operations in Los Angeles.”
  • Lawmakers traveled Sunday to the Adelanto Detention Facility in San Bernardino County, in an attempt to meet with some of the detainees from these immigration actions.

Immigration Protests Ramp Up Across Los Angeles County

A third day of protests Sunday turned Los Angeles into a “tinderbox,” according to Mayor Karen Bass, as law enforcement clashed with demonstrators over a series of federal immigration raids.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a Saturday post on X that it had arrested 118 immigrants during operations in Los Angeles last week. Since then, demonstrators protesting the raids have clashed with police in Los Angeles, Paramount and neighboring Compton.

Police deployed tear gas and pepper spray as protesters gathered outside a detention center on Sunday. Some of the immigrants detained by ICE agents were initially held at the facility.

President Trump said he would deploy 2,000 National Guard soldiers in response to the protests. In a social media post, Trump attacked what he called “Radical Left protests” by “instigators and often paid troublemakers.” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard was not necessary and was “inflaming tensions.”

Members Of Congress Denied Access To Adelanto Detention Facility

Southern California Congresswoman Judy Chu and a small delegation of federal lawmakers and immigration attorneys were denied entry into the Adelanto Detention Facility on Sunday — just days after a major enforcement sweep led to dozens of arrests across the Los Angeles area.

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Chu, a Democrat from Pasadena, says volunteers saw several unmarked vans entering the facility on Saturday. The American Civil Liberties Union later confirmed to her that some of their clients were among those detained.

When Chu arrived the next day with Democrats Gil Cisneros of Covina and Derek Tran of Cypress, along with members of the ACLU and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, they weren’t let in. “We went up to the gate, and the gate was actually open, but as soon as we got to the gate, they actually closed it in our faces and put a chain around the entrance,” said Chu.

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