Violent protests against ICE raids in Los Angeles prompt deployment of National Guard troops as local officials call for federal agents to leave and demand an end to immigration enforcement.

It feels like we’re participating involuntarily in a stunt to see what happens when the federal government steps in, how far can they go usurping state power or local power, and as a warning to other cities around the country.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and officials from more than a dozen other cities in L.A. County banded together on Wednesday, June 11, offering a unified message to President Donald Trump and his administration: End the immigration raids and stop sowing unnecessary fear in our communities.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass criticized the Trump administration's immigration raids, calling them "a recipe for pandemonium" that provoked protests.

Jacob Soboroff, NBC News Correspondent is joined by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Deadline White House in the wake of Donald Trump sending thousands of national guard troops into her city in response to protests in the streets over ICE arrests and raids.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) is grappling with the second high-profile crisis of her tenure as immigration protests roil her city, months after devastating wildfires tore through the

We will not stand for this,” Bass said in a statement released after federal immigration authorities arrested 44 people in raids across Los Angeles.

The curfew was ordered as Mayor Bass declared that nights of protests that had sometimes dissolved into vandalism and looting had reached a “tipping point.”