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Los Angeles is in the grips of second day of protests against the Trump administration's immigration raids - with footage showing a car set on fire and tear gas deployed.
The US President approved the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to suppress what one senior White House aide is calling an "insurrection".
It follows the arrest of at least 44 people for alleged immigration violations on Friday.
Protesters gathered outside a federal detention centre to call for their release.
"Trump must go now, ICE must go now. From Bondi to Homan, the whole fascist regime!"
Twenty-year-old Isaac Siova showed reporters a wound he says was caused by a rubber bullet fired by officers trying to disperse the crowd.
“Coming over here, there was rubber bullets shooting over my head while I was next to the journalists even. Like I was talking with an Australian reporter and they they ran right by my head. I had to duck and it almost hit the journalist. And like the back of his head, that would have maybe killed him. You know, like back of the head is very sensitive.”
As tensions continue, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has confirmed active duty marines have been put on standby, in addition to National Guard troops.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has criticised these tactics, saying the approach is "purposefully inflammatory" and "will only escalate tensions".
Mr Trump hit back in a post on his social media platform Truth Social.
"If Governor Gavin Newscum, of California, and Mayor Karen Bass, of Los Angeles, can’t do their jobs, which everyone knows they can’t, then the Federal Government will step in and solve the problem, RIOTS & LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!"
The Mayor of Los Angeles, Karren Bass, says she'll stand by her community, accusing the Trump administration of "sowing terror".
"We are going to fight for all Angelenos regardless of when they got here, whether they have papers or not. We are a city of immigrants, and this impact hundreds of thousands of Angelenos."
The unrest in LA is the latest flashpoint over the Trump administration's broader push to deport record numbers of people who are in the country without documentation.
The White House has set a goal for its Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency - better known as ICE - to arrest at least 3,000 migrants per day.
The administration's aggressive posture has led to court challenges which some legal experts assert are pushing the country towards a constitutional crisis.
Democratic congresswoman Norma Torres, who represents one of the districst that covers LA, has also criticised the latest round of ICE raids.
"You cannot just come into the community and terrorise citizens, the way you did. You cannot just continue to come in and profile people not knowing if you are arresting American citizens. We have no idea who you have kidnapped."
As outrage over the administration's approach grows, demonstrations have also broken out in New York.
Meanwhile White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has described the demonstrations as "an insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States" in a post on X.
The Department of Homeland Security says 1,000 "rioters" surrounded a federal law enforcement building in L-A on Friday slashing tires, defacing buildings, and assaulting ICE officers.
Those claims are yet to be independently verified.
