The ongoing protests in Los Angeles began with small demonstrations against immigration raids in the nation's second largest city.

Alarm spread through California agricultural centers Tuesday as panicked workers reported that federal immigration authorities were showing up at farm fields and packing houses from the Central Coast to the San Joaquin Valley.

An immigration raid on Tuesday at a meat production plant in Omaha, Nebraska was the "largest worksite enforcement operation" in the state during the Trump presidency, the Homeland Security Department said.

After a federal raid in Minneapolis spurred community unrest, the city's police department has reiterated to its rank-and-file instructions not to collaborate with federal immigration agents.

“There is no emergency, widespread threat, or out of control violence in Los Angeles,” said Rick Caruso, Los Angeles real estate developer and former president of the L.A. Police Commission, on X.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum expressed support for the Mexican community in the United States following mass protests over raids by immigration authorities in Los Angeles .

"We've seen the action of ICE ramp up around the country. We've seen the dirty tactics of abducting, ambushing people in the hallways of courtrooms," said Noemi Jimenez, with Vecinos Unidos.

It also resulted in a chaotic scene when community members from South Park, a leafy neighborhood that borders Balboa Park, began to angrily protest the immigration crackdown and go face-to-face with officers and agents from U.

A protester washes his face after police used tear gas and flash-bangs at the Federal Building in Santa Ana, CA, on Monday, June 9, 2025. About 400 anti-ICE protesters spent the afternoon carrying signs as they chanted and yelled at police. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)