Amid a storm of protest and arrests in downtown Los Angeles, immigration authorities appear to be intensifying operations across Southern California as federal officials vow to press ahead with a crackdown on workers and residents without proper documents.

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

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.

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.

U.S. meat producer Glenn Valley Foods was operating an Omaha, Nebraska, facility with about 30% of its staff on Wednesday after federal agents detained workers in an immigration raid the previous day,

Los Angeles County residents can support local and regional organizations that are directly supporting families who were affected by recent ICE raids and immigrant communities in need.

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