June 9, 2025

On Friday, June 6, ICE agents raided the garment district in downtown Los Angeles in search of undocumented immigrants, as part of the Trump Administration's push to focus ICE raids on work places. This new tactic has sparked outrage in communities across the country as local businesses have continuously been raided by law enforcement in an ongoing front by Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan. This all came to head on June 6 in LA when Ice agents were met by a large number of protesters in the majority Latino community, with protesters chanting and throwing eggs before being dispersed with non-lethal weapons. By June 7, the protests had moved to Paramount, another Latino community about 15-miles south. A major highway was blocked off as self driving cars were set ablaze and protesters filled the road way. The demonstration spread through downtown and the suburbs with law enforcement once again responding with tear gas, flash-bang grenades and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds. Circumventing the protocols in place to cooperate with Governor Gavin Newsom, Trump deployed 2,000 National Guard troops to LA, sending a message to the protesters “They spit, we hit.” Trump ultimately doubled down, and in an act that shocked many, deployed 700 Marines to LA in a  “supporting role.” By Monday the actions started to die down, but the clash resulted in over 150 arrests and police firing munitions that left protesters and journalists injured from the rubber bullets used. The actions taken by Trump and ICE in LA sparked movement in major cities across the nation, in defiance of the harsh retaliation to the protesters and the ongoing immigration policies carried out by the administration. Protesters took to the streets in Austin, Texas, on June 9, marching to the J.J. Pickle Federal Building where ICE holds detainees. Shooting the building with paint balls and marking the front doors with spray paint and profanities, the demonstration escalated into the night as police force grew larger against the crowd that fed on the defiance. Eventually notified over a megaphone of their unlawful gathering, police shot flash-bang grenades and tear gas into the crowd, sending protesters scattering through the streets of downtown Austin.