Protests live updates: Marines make 1st temporary detention in LA
Marines are now on duty in Los Angeles for the first time.
Tensions are escalating between President Donald Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom as protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement continue to grip Los Angeles and spread to New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Austin, Texas, and other cities.
Trump deployed about 4,000 National Guardsmen and 700 Marines to LA against Newsom's wishes.
A federal appeals court Thursday delayed an order requiring the Trump administration to return control of the National Guard to Newsom, dealing the administration a temporary reprieve to what would have been a major reversal of its policy on the protests.
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Multiple arrests made at protests in LA and New York, says FBI
The deputy director of the FBI said "multiple arrests" have been made in both Los Angeles and New York after protests broke out in both cities due to immigration enforcement.
"We are not intimidated or apprehensive," FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said on Sunday morning in a post on X. "Illegal immigration operations will continue, and anyone using violence to obstruct or impede these operations will be investigated and prosecuted."
Bongino added, "We are not stopping or slowing down."
Bongino said many of those arrested "will face federal charges, along with local and state charges."
"It will not end well for you if you choose violence. Choose wisely," Bongino said.
In a post on X Saturday night, FBI Director Kash Patel warned: "Hit a cop, you’re going to jail… doesn’t matter where you came from, how you got here, or what movement speaks to you. If the local police force won’t back our men and women on the thin blue line, we @FBI will."
"Violence and intimidation against federal law enforcement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," according to a Sunday-morning post on X by the Department of Homeland Security. "These violent rioters are fighting against LAW and ORDER," the post added.
-ABC News' Luke Barr
House Speaker Johnson defends National Guard deployment to LA
House Speaker Mike Johnson said he is “not concerned at all” over President Donald Trump's order to send 2,000 National Guard troops to respond to immigration protests in Los Angeles.
“I think the president did exactly what he needed to do,” Johnson told ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl on Sunday. “That is real leadership and he has the authority and the responsibility to do it.”
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said he is prepared to mobilize Marines if the violence continues. Pressed if sending Marines into the streets of American cities is warranted, Johnson said, “We have to be prepared to do what is necessary.”
-ABC News' Lauren Peller
National Guard members begin arriving in Los Angeles
Members of the California National Guard arrived in Downtown Los Angeles shortly before 4 a.m. local time on Sunday morning, with some vehicles stopping in front of the Hall of Justice, which is next to City Hall.
-ABC News' Jennifer Watts
Multiple people detained after LAPD dispersal order issued
Multiple people were detained after reentering an area the Los Angeles Police Department had ordered them to leave, the department said.
"Those detained will be arrested and booked for failing to disperse from an area where an unlawful assembly was ordered," the department’s Central Division said in a statement posted on social media at midnight.
An order to disperse had been issued about three hours prior.
The division said "multiple" people were detained on Alameda Street between Aliso and Temple streets, which are near the local office of the U.S. Justice Department, on the eastern side of Downtown Los Angeles.
Police officials didn’t say how many people had been taken into custody.
-ABC News' Jessica Gorman