"Migration ... has turned once idyllic towns into scenes of Third World Dystopia." President Donald Trump said in a social media post directing ICE agents to step up deportations.

At the same time, the Trump administration has directed immigration officers to pause arrests at farms, restaurants and hotels, after Trump expressed alarm about the impact aggressive enforcement is having on those industries, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter who spoke only on condition of anonymity.

Donald Trump ordered ICE officers to prioritize deportations in Democrat-run cities in a wild Truth Social rant Sunday night. The president issued the unprecedented, politically-motivated orders just hours after millions of protesters gathered in major American cities,

CNN is tracking the LA protests against ICE and the Trump administration and those that have spread across the US this week.

Chicago police officers pin a demonstrator to the ground and arrest them at West Washington Street and North State Street during a protest in the Loop, decrying increased immigration enforcement across the country, Tuesday, June 10, 2025.

In Los Angeles, hundreds of protesters have now gathered by the federal building in downtown, where dozens of service members are standing guard with shields. Choruses of “Shame on you,” “Traitors” and “Marines out of LA” resound from the street.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across Southern California on Saturday to voice their concerns over ongoing immigration raids and oppose the policies of President Trump, who they depicted as an aspiring monarch.

Across the country, relatively few disruptions were reported during protests and marches where the mood ranged from joyful to defiant.