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A U.S. federal judge on Friday blocked Donald Trump's administration from withholding federal funding from more than 30 so-called sanctuary jurisdictions including Los Angeles, Baltimore, Boston and Chicago that have declined to cooperate with the Republican president's hardline immigration crackdown.
Advocacy groups recently led a 24-hour “community stoppage” in support of immigrants who have been detained by ICE.
Three officials involved in President Trump's controversial L.A. National Guard deployment testified in court Monday.
The U.S. government's unprecedented use of National Guard troops in Los Angeles to protect officers carrying out President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown was illegal and should be ended, a lawyer for the state of California told a federal judge on Tuesday.
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‘Trump’s terror campaign’: Protests erupt after man dies fleeing federal agent raid at LA Home Depot
Protests erupted after a man died after being struck by a car on a Los Angeles freeway on Thursday as he fled an immigration raid conducted by federal agents at a Home Depot in Monrovia.
A federal judge in San Francisco is weighing whether the Trump administration violated federal law by sending National Guard troops to accompany federal agents on immigration raids in Southern California.
Trump ordered 700 Marines and 4,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles in June, against the wishes of its Democratic governor.
Troops were used to protect federal property and personnel in LA even though intelligence showed little danger, military leaders said Monday.
Justice Department lawyers were in federal court Monday to defend the Trump administration’s deployment of Marines and California National Guard troops during violent anti-ICE demonstrations
A San Francisco judge will evaluate if the Trump administration broke federal law by deploying National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles amid immigration protests. The case hinges on the Posse Comitatus Act limiting military use in domestic law enforcement.
House Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez is introducing a bill to block the Trump administration from using MQ-9 Reaper drones to monitor protests following the riots in Los Angeles.