Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass recently called for an end to immigration raids led by President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

The National Guard, brought in by the Trump administration over the weekend, remains in Southern California as the area has entered Day 8 of anti-ICE protests.

Protests unfolding nationwide against President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda come as Immigration and Customs Enforcement races to meet White House arrest quotas.

Several Angelenos talked to Rolling Stone to dispel Trump's bluster about the recent protests against ICE and his militarized crackdown

On April 29, CNN News Central reported that the president’s approval rating had dropped to just 41 percent. It was the lowest rating of any president approaching the 100th day of their term since modern pollsters started tracking presidential approval ratings during the Eisenhower administration.

The Trump administration has pledged to carry out the largest mass deportation in U.S. history and has conducted numerous ICE raids.

Donald Trump has demanded illegal migrants must "go home" before the US turns into a "bankrupt third world country", in a scathing social media post. The US President recently discussed his support towards the ICE immigration teams as riots and protests began to break out across the states in reaction to the administration's mass deportation

The U.S. Capitol is seen through security fencing, set up on the National Mall, during preparations for an upcoming military parade commemorating the Army’s 250th anniversary and coinciding with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday, Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

President Donald Trump has already eroded many of the U.S.’s democratic safeguards and traditions in the initial months of his second term.