National Guard troops and protesters faced off in Los Angeles on Sunday in an uneasy impasse at a federal detention center in Los Angeles, before city police moved in to try to disperse the crowd.The tense gatherings followed two days of skirmishes over federal immigration operations that President Trump cited in his decision to send in the state’s National Guard over the governor’s objections.

National Guard troops arrived in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday morning following a couple of days marked by violent clashes between law enforcement officers and protesters over President Trump's immigration enforcement operations conducted in the area.

Tensions between the Trump administration and California intensified this weekend as President Donald Trump decided to deploy 2,000 National Guard members to the Los Angeles area, a move the state’s Democratic leaders cast as an unnecessary escalation amid protests over the administration’s immigration policies.