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PBS News Hour - Segments

Immigration raid protests spread to more cities as Trump threatens additional deployments

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

A curfew in downtown Los Angeles remains in effect and more than 350 protesters have been arrested there since the weekend. The National Guard said some troops may be deployed with immigration agents as well. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs reports from Los Angeles. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Welcome to the News Hour. A curfew in downtown Los Angeles remains in effect tonight, and

0:05.8

hundreds of anti-ice protesters have been arrested in Los Angeles and multiple cities this week.

0:11.5

The National Guard also confirmed today it had temporarily detained civilians in L.A. and said

0:16.4

more troops could be deployed with immigration agents. That's as they continue their pursuit of undocumented

0:22.0

immigrants. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and more than two dozen other California mayors

0:26.9

asked President Trump to end the sweeping immigration raids. But today, they continued.

0:32.1

In California, Pennsylvania and Louisiana, among other places. In Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson called President Trump a tyrant and authoritarian.

0:41.3

The president's team defended his approach and warned that guard troops could be deployed to other cities.

0:47.3

Special correspondent Marcia Biggs continues our coverage tonight with this report.

0:51.3

No, Justice! From Atlanta, To New York, coverage tonight with this report. Not justice!

0:55.5

From Atlanta, to New York City, where more than 80 people were arrested, and Chicago, where

1:04.5

police clashed with demonstrators and several more were detained, to Texas, where police pinned protesters to the ground.

1:14.2

And Governor Greg Abbott said he would deploy the National Guard ahead of a planned protest

1:18.5

in San Antonio.

1:20.4

Across the country, anti-ice protesters gathered in the streets in solidarity with those

1:24.9

in Los Angeles. Yesterday in LA, protesters continued marching

1:29.3

against ongoing immigration raids,

1:31.3

and the city's mayor, Karen Bass, declared a curfew

1:34.3

for parts of downtown beginning at 8 p.m.

1:38.3

Last night, California Governor Gavin Newsom

1:40.3

again condemned the administration's decision

1:43.3

to send in the National Guard and the Marines.

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