The demonstrations have taken over Los Angeles for several days in response to the immigration and customs’ immigration and compliance operations in the city of Sanctuary, and some protesters face the police.

The tensions intensified after President Donald Trump summoned the National Guard about the objections of state and city leaders to address what the White House referred to as the “illegality that has been allowed to be agitated.”

The solidarity protests against ice have exploded in other cities following the federal response, which has also included the deployment of hundreds of marines to Los Angeles.

Here is a look at how protests began and what the protesters ask.

How did Los Angeles protests begin?

On Friday, federal agents executed search orders authorized by a federal los Angeles judge in four companies suspected of illegally use undocumented immigrants and falsify employment records, according to a criminal complaint.

In social networks, “La Voz quickly spread over ‘Ice Raids’ that takes place in Los Angeles,” according to the complaint.

The video showed the federal agents that perform the operations, even in an Home Depot in Westlake and the clothing manufacturer Ambiance Apparel in the center of Los Angeles.

The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, said she was “deeply angry” by the raids.

“These tactics sow terror in our communities and interrupt the basic security principles in our city,” he said in a statement on Friday. “We will not defend this.”

Local and family activists of the workers presented themselves in the places, confronting agents about arrests. An outstanding union leader, the president of the service employees, the president of California, David Huerta, was arrested on Friday outside the environment and accused of conspiracy to prevent an officer after an altercation with an agent of the law, according to the complaint. Seiu president, April Verrett, told ABC News that Huerta was “exercising his constitutional right to protest peacefully and be an observer on an sidewalk in the city of Los Angeles.”

After the raids, the protesters also gathered outside the federal buildings in the center of Los Angeles that house an immigration court and a detention center, with signs that said “Ice out of Los Angeles!”

“Our community is under attack and is being terrified,” said the executive director of the Coalition for the Rights of Los Angeles immigrants, during a press conference in the center of Los Angeles. “These are workers, these are parents, they are mothers, and this has to stop. The application of immigration that terrifies our families throughout this country and collects our people that we love must stop now.”

Hours later, in the midst of ongoing protests in downtown Los Angeles, the LAPD declared an illegal assembly on Friday night after reports that a “small group of violent people is launching large pieces of concrete”, and riot team officers moved to disperse the crowd.

‘We are going to continue appearing’

Protests against immigration raids continued until the weekend in downtown Los Angeles, as well as in the cities of Los Angeles County, including Compton and Paramount.

“We have a very beautiful community, a very strong community. And that’s why we appear and we will continue to appear,” He told ABC Los Angeles Kabc station During the weekend. “It is an obligation and a duty for each and every one of us to be here and fight against oppression and these kidnappings.”

On Saturday, the White House said Trump signed a memorandum that deployed thousands of national guards in Los Angeles after “the violent mobs” attacked ICE officers, for the objections of the governor of California Gavin Newsom.

“The Trump administration has a zero tolerance policy for criminal behavior and violence, especially when that violence is aimed at law agents trying to do their job,” said White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt in a statement.

The next day, some protesters were seen throwing scooters and bottles in patrol vehicles and several of Waymo’s autonomous vehicles caught fire.

In the midst of the protests, LAPD said the officers have arrested dozens of people for not dispersing, as well as looting. Other positions have included murder attempt with a Molotov cocktail and an assault with a mortal weapon, police said.

Bass has condemned violence while pointed out in a call with Kabc on Monday that most people who protested have been peaceful and that the most violent protests and vandalism were happening “afternoon at night.” He added that he assumed that violent protests were not being directed by people who supported immigrants, but rather by “marginal groups.”

Bass also blamed Trump for climbing and has continued asking the Trump administration to stop immigration raids in the city, saying that the fear and uncertainty they have created have led the disturbances.

“It makes me feel that our city is actually a trial case, a proof case of what happens when the federal government moves and removes authority for the state or local government,” he told reporters during a press conference on Monday. “I don’t think our city should be used for an experiment.”

Newsom has described implementation as a “complete exaggerated reaction.” He and the Attorney General of California Rob Bonta announced On Monday, they have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on the “illegal and unnecessary acquisition” of the California National Guard that “has unnecessarily increased chaos and violence in the Los Angeles region.”

“Let me be clear: there is no invasion. There is no rebellion. The president is trying to manufacture chaos and crisis in the field for his own political ends,” said Bonta in a statement.

Protests for the federal response and continuous ice raids in the Los Angeles area have been ongoing. Manifestations have also been made at the Los Angeles International Airport against Trump’s new trip prohibition, which entered into force on Monday and prohibits citizens from 12 countries from entering the United States.

Seiu celebrated a great demonstration in the center of Los Angeles on Monday in support of Huerta, who was released from federal custody with a bail of $ 50,000 that day.

Bass said Tuesday that it is not clear how many people have been arrested by ICE.

“On Thursday of last week, Los Angeles was Pacific. There was nothing that happened here that justified the federal intervention that took place the next day,” he said during a press conference. “If we want to see the cause of what is happening here, I take it back to the raids that took place on Friday, and uncertainty and fear and the fact that the families of the city are terrified that they do not know if they should go to work, they do not know if they should go to school.”

Trump defended on Tuesday his decision to send to the National Guard the Marines, saying that the situation in Los Angeles was “out of control.”

“All I want is security. I just want a safe area,” he told reporters. “Los Angeles was under siege until we got there. The police could not handle it.”

Trump suggested that he sent the National Guard to the Marines to send a message to other cities so as not to interfere with ice operations or will find an equal or greater force.

“If we did not attack this with great force, you would have them throughout the country,” he said. “But I can inform the rest of the country that when they do, if they do, they will find an equal or greater force than we find here.”

Why do people protest the ice?

Since Friday, other demonstrations have exploded throughout the country in solidarity, protesting in the activity of ice in their communities and the federal response in Los Angeles. On Monday, protests such as New York, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Dallas and, in California, San José and Santa Ana were held.

The protesters came in San Francisco on Sunday outside an immigration services building to meet in solidarity against raids and ice deportations.

“We have been seeing what is happening in Los Angeles, and we are like, no,” said the protester Nancy Kato to the ABC San Francisco station Kgo. “The whole issue of chasing immigrants and people who are undocumented, the most vulnerable of our populations, that is very bad.”

Nellie Wong told Kgo that she was there “to protest scandalous attacks against undocumented immigrants.”

“This has been happening for some time, but the events that have been happening in Los Angeles, just find horrible,” another protester, Amy Gray-Schlink told Kgo. “We need a united front of all who want to oppose the scapegoat of immigrants.”

In San Diego County, the protesters gathered near the main door of the Pendleton camp on Sunday to face any military activation.

“We want to show our support to the military members who work here. We want to remind them what their duty is for us,” said one of the protesters, veteran of the Air Force, Patrick Saunders, to the ABC affiliate San Diego KGTV. “But in addition, we want to make known very publicly that we condemn any type of action by the administration of the use of active service troops or the National Guard in US citizens.”