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This week's protests and clashes in California are the biggest flare-up yet over Trump's immigration enforcement.

They follow months of escalating ice raids and rhetoric

as the administration struggles to fulfill the president's big promises for mass deportation.

Today, my colleague Hamid Ali Aziz goes inside one ice operation

and explains why the tensions over Trump's aggressive approach may only get worse in the months to come.

It's Wednesday, June 11th.

Hamid, welcome back to the show.

We've now seen five days of protests in L.A. over these ice raids.

First, the administration sent in the National Guard, then hundreds of Marines.

All of this comes after months of increasing enforcement across the country, ice showing up in full force to find and detain immigrants in various cities.

As one of the people who's been leading our coverage of this, what do you feel like is the story of what we're seeing here?

To me, what happened in L.A LA is a sign that the administration means what they've been saying. They plan on going into every community in the United States

to find people they believe should be deported. And that includes Los Angeles. That includes

downtown Los Angeles. California, a place that has been basically the center of resistance to President Trump's immigration crackdown. They are not afraid of going into these communities and making arrests. But I think it also speaks to the fact that ICE has really been struggling to get their immigration arrests up.

And, of course, President Trump came into office promising this historic mass deportation effort that he was going to deport more people than ever before.

Right. The largest mass deportation operation in history.

Exactly. And thus far, that's been, you know, really slow going.

Slow going, how? How do we see that?

Well, from the beginning of the administration until, you know, earlier this week,

they have deported around 200,000 people. And for comparison, during the Biden administration, in 2024, they deported over 700,000 people.

Wow. So this is a lot less.

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