protests on the streets of Los Angeles are now on their fifth day.

Driving the demonstrations are President Trump's immigration policy,

and specifically raids conducted by immigration and customs enforcement, or ICE.

So ICE did this operation in L.A. starting on Friday.

They raided a few workplaces.

There was a garment factory and then the parking lot surrounding areas of a home depot in this very Latino neighborhood.

That's our colleague Michelle Hackman, who covers immigration policy.

She's been following the Trump administration's deportation efforts,

which are now happening in places where undocumented folks go to look for work.

Immigrants who are working in the country illegally,

often, you know, day laborers, people who work in construction

or being hired to help out with people's homes or gardening or whatever, will gather in the

parking lot of a Home Depot looking for work.

And so for ICE, it's like an easy target to go there and just figure out everyone's immigration

status and arrest everyone who doesn't have papers.

As news of the raids spread, people began to take to the streets and spots around LA County,

including at the federal detention center downtown.

As protesters gathered, ice started escalating using sort of pepper spray and in some cases flashbangs.

That made the protests bigger and more aggressive,

which caused a larger law enforcement response,

and so on and so forth.

Protests against immigration raids turning chaotic.

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