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Today, President Trump turns Los Angeles into a deployment zone.

Tensions have been rising since Saturday when Trump deployed 2,000 national guards to the city

to crush protests of a raids to deport migrants.

What is happening on the streets of L.A. and what's really behind this crackdown?

I'm Manuel Rappalo, and this is the take.

I've been involved in the social movement here in Los Angeles for over a decade.

I've been to plenty of marches for immigrant rights.

We have our speeches, people talk, give their speeches, and then people go home and nothing happens, right? So who's escalating this is the state by sending in the

National Guard, by sending in the Marines, by firing indiscriminately at press, at peaceful

protesters. They are the ones escalating the situation, not the protesters. My name is Abraham

Marquez. I'm an investigative journalist based here in Los Angeles, California.

Abraham, welcome to the take. You've been covering these protests since they began last Friday

here in Los Angeles, California. We've seen police officers in riot gear, weapons raised, firing non-lethal rounds into the crowd.

You yourself were caught in the middle of this, because it's my understanding that you were

actually shot with a paintball.

How are you?

And what have you seen over the course of these last few days?

Yeah, I mean, I'm fine.

It's been some time I've been able to rest.

It all started on Friday.

In the morning, there was alerts that there was ice presence in the downtown area, what is known as the Santialis, which is a heavily populated Latino community and a lot undocumented workers.

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