Tonight' host criticized the president for sending National Guard troops and Marines into Los Angeles: "Why would you send troops if there is nothing for them to do?"

Mayor Karen Bass said Sunday that Los Angeles does not need National Guard troops to bolster city police amid protests against raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, despite violent incidents.

Anti-ICE protests continue in Los Angeles after the National Guard was deployed following immigration enforcement actions.

President Trump has said the city would be burning without military intervention, but the protests have been confined to a relatively small area.

A tense moment played out on CNN’s air Tuesday when a police officer trying to clear an area where demonstrators had been protesting immigration raids in Los Angeles confronted a reporter for the network seemingly caught in the chaos. As CNN’s Kyung Lah was reporting live from the demonstrations, the camera caught Los Angeles Police…

In the days before protests erupted in Los Angeles, the Trump administration stepped up its efforts to detain migrants — taking into custody those who arrived for routine check-ins while also conducting workplace raids that have sent waves of fear across Southern California and beyond.

Posts using fake images and baseless claims have sought to connect protests to left-wing Latin American governments, similar to misinformation that has swirled around previous news events.