NWSLPA Executive Director Meghann Burke said, "What’s happening in LA is clearly an immigration issue, but it goes even beyond that."

Twenty-seven arrests were made at immigration protests in downtown L.A. on Sunday on suspicion of throwing a Molotov cocktail at an officer and driving a motorcycle into a line of police, authorities said.

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

Immigration authorities raided an Omaha meat production plant Tuesday and took dozens of workers away in buses, leaving company officials bewildered because they said they had followed the law.

The peaceful protest began shortly after 6 p.m. and soon tripled in size as people congregated in front of a road closure, occupied by at least six members of the California National Guard on

A federal judge in Texas said the Trump administration sought to "blatantly judge-shop" to evade a ruling he had issued rejecting its request for a warrant that would allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to raid a business to detain migrants who are not authorized to work in the U.