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L.A. Protesters And Police In Standoff As Trump Doubles National Guard Deployment; California Governor Gavin Newsom Suing Trump Administration; Protests Take Place In Numerous U.S. Cities; Fourth Night of L.A. Protests, Law Enforcement in Riot Gear; ICE Detains Migrants in NY During Supervision Appointments; California Union Leader Released from Federal Custody; California Sues Trump Administration Over National Guard Deployment. Aired 1-2a ET

Aired June 10, 2025 - 01:00   ET

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MJ LEE, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL ENTERPRISE CORRESPONDENT: Hello, and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. I'm MJ Lee. Let's get straight to our breaking news out of Los Angeles, where a day of relatively calm protest turned into angry confrontations.

It is about 10 p.m. in downtown L.A. where police have made dozens of arrests and the crowds have grown smaller. Law enforcement initially pushed protesters back from a federal building. We've seen objects getting thrown and flashbangs being fired. Some fireworks have been going off as well.

And National Guard troops have been lined up with riot shields. And this is the fourth night of protests against the U.S. President's increasingly aggressive immigration enforcement raids. Donald Trump claims federal forces were sent into L.A. to restore order.

In recent hours, he deployed another 2,000 National Guard members as well as 700 U.S. Marines while immigration and Customs Enforcement officers carry out raids throughout the city. Protesters include union members, immigration rights activists and supporters. These struggles on the street coincide with the larger power struggle as city officials and the state of California have condemned the actions of the Trump administration.

The L.A. mayor pinning the blame for the chaos squarely on the federal government, saying her city was peaceful before they intervened, intervenes. And the protests have been spreading to other U.S. cities as well. Let's get straight to CNN's Michael Yoshida who is live now in Los Angeles. Michael, what is the latest right now and what is happening now where you are?

MICHAEL YOSHIDA, CNN REPORTER: Hey, good to be with you, MJ. You can see behind me we still have some law enforcement, some LAPD officers here in downtown LA. But the night really starting to get a lot calmer, at least in terms of the protests we've been following for most of the day. Again, across the street you can see some officers still in this intersect.

We still have maybe just a handful of the protesters. We had hundreds earlier when were outside that federal detention center probably about a half mile away from where we are right now. And as they work to disperse that crowd, to push them through the streets of L.A., we saw dozens and dozens of L.A. police officers in their right gear slowly moving the crowds through the streets.

Eventually, we ended up here, and I'd say it was about an hour ago when we saw officers really start to give the directive that it was time to disperse to this group. It was time to either go home or risk being arrested. We have seen two L.A. Police Department buses loaded up over the last 30 or 40 minutes with individuals, their hands zip tied behind their backs, being loaded up and driven away.

So at least for this part of la, downtown la, as you can see, a lot calmer at this point. Obviously, we have potentially heard reports of other activity on maybe some nearby streets, and obviously something we'll be keeping an eye on, but also, of course, law enforcement as well as the night goes on.

LEE: Yes, the scene behind you certainly seems a lot quieter than even what we were seeing an hour ago. Michael, what can you tell us too, about the back and forth between President Trump and the governor there, Gavin Newsom?

YOSHIDA: Sure. Obviously, as we saw interactions playing out between law enforcement and the protesters here, we've seen that dynamic back and forth play out between Governor Gavin Newsom, also President Trump as well, much of it playing out either on TV or on social media. We've heard the threats of potential arrests, say, for Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, the governor as well.

The governor calling this action by President Trump immoral, unconstitutional. The state of California filing that lawsuit against the mobilization, the federalization of the National Guard. So, again, as we've seen dynamics play out in the streets, we're also seeing the more political dynamics play out across the TVs and social media.

LEE: All right, Michael Yoshida, thank you so much. And President Trump seems to have changed his tone slightly about the protests. When he arrived back at the White House from Camp David on Sunday, he described the protesters as insurrectionists and professional agitators. He also seemed to suggest it would be good policy to hit some of them.

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DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: We're going to be watching it very closely. And when they spit at people, you know, they spit. That's a new thing. They spit and worse, you know, what they throw at them. Right? And when that happens, I have a little statement. They say they spit, we hit.

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LEE: But on Monday, he appeared to pull back, saying perhaps the protests didn't rise to the level of insurrection.

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TRUMP: I wouldn't call it quite an insurrection, but it could have led to an insurrection. I mean, that was a serious. That was a lot of -- that was a lot of harm that was going on last night. I watched it very closely.

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LEE: U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi says the Department of Justice has opened nine cases related to the Los Angeles immigration protests. She promised a crackdown on protesters, but didn't say whether charges had been filed. CNN has reached out to the DOJ for clarification.

And meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem claimed Monday that the Los Angeles protests are, quote, professionally done. She provided no evidence and CNN has contacted her department for details as well.

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KRISTI NOEM, U.S. SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY: These are organized. These are people that are being paid to do this. You can follow how they behave, the signals they give to each other in these crowds and these protests to instigate violence. This is an operation and it's professionally done. They've done it before. And we're stop it and make sure that we prosecute every single one of them.

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LEE: And I want to bring in now political scientist Benjamin Radd. He is a senior fellow at the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA. Benjamin, thanks very much for being here.

I'm hoping, for starters, you could just briefly take off your political scientist hat and just talk to us as a member of the Los Angeles community. You know, emotions are certainly running high for these presidents protesters. How is the rest of the broader LA community digesting these images that have been coming in?

BENJAMIN RADD, SENIOR FELLOW AT THE BURKLE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, UCLA: Yes, as a citizen and as somebody who is a immigrant myself, I mean, a lot of us in this city made up of millions and millions of people like me, like others who have been there, who have been targeted, it is very emotional, very difficult to see. This was an issue that really was not anything like what we're seeing on our screens now. It wasn't until it was, you know, escalated in recent days that it's taken on what it has.

And what we've seen is members of the community, regardless of their ethnic, racial background, regardless of their heritage, coming out either at these gatherings, at these protests, or doing other things, taking other steps, whether symbolic or otherwise, to show solidarity with all of those who are being impacted and targeted.

So it's very much done a lot to unite the community and to highlight really how diverse and crucial that diversity is to the city's development and well-being.

LEE: And I'd like to ask you about President Trump's decision to deploy National Guard troops and additionally activate hundreds of Marines. Were those actions warranted, do you think, given the situation that we've seen on the ground in Los Angeles?

RADD: No. And there's two reasons for that. Number one, there wasn't any need from local law enforcement or local officials elected, including the mayor, Karen Bass. There was not a situation that the local law enforcement, whether it was LA County Sheriffs or LAPD, could not handle. There were no calls made, any, you know, distress signals that indicated that those two agencies and other affiliated agencies could not handle what was taking place.

It was all under control to that extent. And we've seen incidents of violence and street protests before in the city. It's nothing new here. But in the past, there have been moments where it's escalated to the point where local officials felt they needed executive support or support from the state.

Now, the second part is the state. The governor himself has been observing this, and Governor Newsom has indicated that nothing showed to him or to other state officials that local L.A. officials could not handle what was taking place.

So, no, there was nothing, at least from what any of us could see, that warranted the need for federal troops or National Guard that have been federalized to come in.

LEE: So the fact that the president invoked presidential powers that had not been invoked in decades, and as you just pointed out, in direct defiance of local leaders wishes. The governor, as you know, is now suing the Trump administration as a result of all of this. I mean, all of this seems to raise some serious legal questions and questions about precedent, too.

RADD: Yes. And this is something that the courts will have to address because the Insurrection Act has not been formally and officially invoked. That act would give the president authority under federal law to mobilize, to nationalize, to federalize the National Guard and use them for such situations, but that those standards have not been met. And that law has not been invoked, number one.

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And then as far as what the president has done is he has invoked a very rarely used federal statute, part of the U.S. code, that gives him the power to utilize the National Guard and to deploy it when he feels that federal control is being challenged and when there are compromises to federal authority.

But that is supposed to be done in consultation with the governor. And no indication has been made that the president has made any attempts to reach out to the governor beforehand to say, hey, is this needed? This seems to be spiraling out of control.

So, again, the legal basis for this isn't there. All that's left are inherent presidential powers or executive authority under Article 2 of the Constitution. And this is what Governor Newsom's lawsuit with the state's lawsuit is going to contest and dispute whether or not President Trump can invoke those inherent executive authorities.

LEE: And as you know, President Trump has long talked about the possibility of deploying the military to crush demonstrations in blue states and blue areas. And now here we are, troops deployed to Los Angeles in defiance again, of the Democratic governor there.

How much politics do you see at play here? I mean, can you imagine a similar scene unfolding in a red state, for example, with Republican leadership?

RADD: Indeed, in my classrooms, I've created scenarios. I've had my students participate in scenarios anticipating such an event. This was done over a year and a half ago where the question arose that if a president decided to exercise extra constitutional authority to federalize the National Guard in direct violation of federal law or in opposition to a state governor's request, what would that look like? What would the options be? And could we see this spread into other states or other parts of the country?

And as of now, yes, it is a very politicized situation. For the reason for that is because we have elected officials, both local and state, who are tasked with addressing and dealing with precisely these issues. Their job is to protect state, civilian, and federal authorities so that they can carry out their tasks.

Now, that wasn't really allowed to happen. It wasn't allowed to play out before we saw the president deciding to intervene and also verbally escalate the situation with his post on social media, basically making it, you know, it's a problem of his own making in that sense, escalating and amplifying, exaggerating really what the condition looks like. And when that's taking place, then almost any authority can be justified if you declare everything to be an emergency.

LEE: All right, Benjamin Radd, thank you so much for joining us.

RADD: Thank you.

LEE: Los Angeles isn't the only American city where protests are taking place. Crowds gathered in Dallas, Texas, for example, to support those targeted by immigration raids and arrests. And marchers in the Texas Capitol, Austin carried anti-racism signs and shouted slogans in solidarity, such as who streets, our streets.

In Manhattan, police made arrests where protesters were blocking New York City streets. Demonstrators carried signs calling for the rejection of fascism. They were arrested for violating traffic laws. Our breaking news coverage of the protests in Los Angeles continues after a short break. We'll hear from protesters telling us why they're out on the streets for a fourth day in a row.

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KYLIE VINCENT, PROTESTER: Like a young white person that was born and raised in California, like, it's our job to stand up with them and say that we don't stand for this either. And I'm not really scared of them. I'm more scared of what our country's becoming.

LOGAN CASTILLO, PROTESTER: I feel like people are starting to get the message kind of mixed up that we're here for violence, we're here to cause mayhem, but we're really here to get the message clear that we are really OK with the fact that people are just going into homes, basically kidnapping people.

JADE LYNN, PROTESTER: There's a lot of love. All these people come here with love and all the people standing over there with hate. And we're just here to fight that. That's what we're here for.

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LEE: These are protesters explaining why they are demonstrating. You're watching CNN's breaking news coverage of a fourth night of protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles.

In the last hour, police have been boxing in protesters at one site and arrest. It follows a day of tension on the streets, with objects thrown at law enforcement and flashbangs set off in front of protesters and away from the streets, an escalation in the battle between the president and local officials in California.

President Trump is deploying 2,000 more National Guard troops and 700 U.S. Marines to Los Angeles. That's despite the state of California filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration, asking a judge to declare the deployments unconstitutional.

Both California's governor and the mayor of Los Angeles are putting the blame on President Trump for inflaming the situation in Los Angeles. On Monday, Mayor Karen Bass took aim at comments that the president made in a social media post about her city.

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MAYOR KAREN BASS (D) LOS ANGELES: And then I read a description of our city that was so troubling to me, a description of our city that says that we have been invaded and occupied by illegal aliens and criminals and that now violent insurrectionist mobs are swarming and attacking our federal agents. I don't know if anybody has seen that happen, but I've not seen that

happen. And obviously there has been violence and the violence is unacceptable. And we can talk about that in a minute.

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LEE: CNN's Kyung Lah is in Los Angeles with more on these protests.

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KYUNG LAH, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A strong police presence near the federal building.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They come for one.

CROWED: They come for all.

LAH (voice-over): All of downtown has now been declared an unlawful assembly area after hundreds of protesters took to the streets in this part of the city, clashing with local law enforcement and the National Guard.

The protests sparked by local immigration raids like this one unfolding across Los Angeles. Witnesses too afraid to speak on camera, watched and filmed as Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested street vendors at gunpoint outside the L.A. Coliseum, the site of the Olympic Games that will be held in three years.

Some protesters violently pushing back against these raids on Sunday, burning cars, defacing buildings. National Guard troops fired back, blasting tear gas and pepper spray. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass blaming the unrest squarely on the Trump administration.

BASS: If immigration raids had not happened here, we would not have the disorder that went on last night.

LAH (voice-over): And saying the unrest escalated after hundreds of California National Guard troops arrived on scene Sunday, deployed by President Donald Trump, overriding city and state leaders. California Governor Gavin Newsom saying in a post the president flamed the fires and illegally acted to federalize the National Guard. And California's attorney general added the state plans to file a lawsuit over the order to send in the troops.

ROB BONTA, CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL: They did so without authorization from Governor Newsom and against the wishes of local law enforcement who are on the ground.

LAH (voice-over): It's the first federal deployment of the Guard without a governor's request since the 1965 civil rights protests.

BASS: It felt like fuel for a fire. That was unnecessary. It was 100 people, 27 people were arrested. There wasn't a reason for this. That is the concern. LAH (voice-over): Trump posting that he made a great decision, sending

in the guards, saying otherwise Los Angeles would be completely obliterated.

TRUMP: The people that are causing the problem are professional agitators. They're insurrectionists.

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LEE: And let's get more now from Jason Pack. He is a retired FBI Supervisory Special agent and joins me live from Knoxville, Tennessee.

Jason, I wonder what you make so far of how law enforcement has been handling these protesters. The, the use of flashbangs, as we saw shooting rubber bullets to disperse the crowds and clear them out from certain areas. They're obviously making more arrests tonight as well.

JASON PACK, RETIRED FBI SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT: Yes. MJ, good morning. Thanks for having me. I think we have a really volatile situation here, and I think police so far have shown quite a bit of restraint. You know, they're taking concrete cinder blocks of overpasses into their cars. They're taking words and people yelling at them up front.

So you know, and when that action of, when that those words turn into actions or violence, I think that's the line. And I think what we're seeing here is a police department. You don't want your police to be handcuffed either way. So you want to make sure that everybody's safe out there.

The police, the LAPD is a very professional organization. They have the LA County Sheriff's Office, they have the Orange County Sheriff, they have the California Highway Patrol. So there are resources available there.

But when you start running 24, 7 operations, 12 hour shifts, the men and women behind those shields that went to batons who are trying to actually walk the real front lines kind of need a break every now and then. So you have to plan for these contingencies should they go on.

As you mentioned, MJ, we're into our fourth night here, so you can't use the same officers day in and day out without somebody getting hurt. And I think it's also important right now to take a step back and say, so far and thank God that nobody has been killed yet. We have some minor injuries, but just thankful for that fact right now.

So, hopefully cooler heads will prevail. This is a highly volatile situation, but hopefully cooler heads will prevail.

LEE: Absolutely. And in addition to National Guard troops, President Trump has also activated hundreds of Marines. Let's talk about those extraordinary moves by the President. I mean, do you think the scenes that we have seen so far have warranted the deployment of the military?

PACK: Well, certainly it's a very volatile situation. I said that before. And it's highly emotionally charged. No one wants to see the military in their town, but no one also wants to see their town burned down. So there's both sides of the situation to see here. And I think that'll play out in courts. I think the governor has sued the administration, and so in days or weeks, we'll find out if that's legal or not. But what's important to understand now is the safety of the officers and the protesters.

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What people don't understand, I think, and we've seen this before when I was involved in some of these cases at FBI headquarters coordinate with the field office. Just tonight, the Los Angeles FBI field office has put out a seeking information poster one of these protesters who probably is anarchist and not necessarily one of the peaceful protesters. He is alleged to have thrown the cinder block, injuring an ICE agent. And so they're looking to charge him with 18 USC 111 assault on a federal officer.

So those are the people that you're worried about. You're worried about the people who show up at these scenes. They're highly organized. They use encrypted apps to communicate. They have scouts, they have medics. And you see them and you may see them in Dallas.

So if you're looking at the video here from the riots in Los Angeles, look for similarities in the ones in Dallas, the people in the black block and the people who are looking maybe to take advantage of people who come out just to protest and just to exercise their First Amendment rights.

So I think you have to kind of look toward that a little bit. And that's kind of the work that the FBI is doing. You don't see that really as we're seeing the pictures here from Los Angeles and Dallas and other places around the country, when these pop up, we don't see these behind the scenes things. But really I think that's what federal law enforcement is going to do. And when you're talking about the Marines have a very limited role. And again, no one wants to see troops in cities. That's just a bad image.

But what we do see if they are coming, and that's the fact that they're here, their role is limited to protection of federal facilities. And so the Marines, for instance, have the Marine security guard group in U.S. embassies across the world. The Marines are the front line of defense for each of those. So I think they have the experience to guard the federal facilities.

We don't see them patrolling. It's not going to be like Fallujah where they're going to be patrolling streets. I think their mission, from what I understand now, is super limited to protection of federal property.

LEE: Yeah, well, speaking of the Marines, L.A. Police Chief Jim McDonnell said this evening that there has to be open and continuous lines of communication between the Marines and all of the other agencies that are on the scene and involved.

I mean, help us understand a little bit some of the logistical complications that could arise when you're not just talking about local police, but inject the Marines into the picture. There are so many agencies involved.

PACK: Yes, ma'am. So they use what's called unified command. And so there's a joint operations center where all the agencies have representatives. Hopefully, the military will likely send somebody to that joint operations center to coordinate these things and make sure that each agency kind of knows what the other one's doing. There's those usually are daily briefings where people go around, they talk about what their roles and responsibilities are for the day, what the intelligence is out there, what they know, and then just make sure that they have open lines of communication.

So I think either in an emergency operations center there in a place like Los Angeles, or the federal authorities may have their own joint operations center where they're used to coordinating these types of things.

I think you saw that a little bit with the fires a few months ago where they opened these coordination centers up. And so hopefully that's going on. I think it is. We've known that the law enforcement elements certainly are doing that. I can't imagine that the military would not send somebody there to do the same.

LEE: All right, Jason Pack in Knoxville, Tennessee. Thank you for those insights.

PACK: Good evening.

LEE: And still to come, more on the protests over federal immigration raids and the Trump administration's deployment of National Guard troops and Marines. We'll have the latest.

Plus, ICE is now detaining migrants in New York during appointments for a supervision program. Coming up, how one family suddenly saw their father taken away from them in handcuffs.

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LEE: Welcome back. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm M.J. Lee.

Back to our top story this hour.

A fourth day of protests in Los Angeles over federal immigration raids and U.S. President Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard. Clashes between protesters and police continued throughout the evening, with officers ordering people to clear the streets.

CNN teams saw officers using flash bangs and rubber bullets for crowd control and protesters throwing water bottles at police.

President Trump has ordered an additional 2,000 members of the National Guard to be deployed to Los Angeles to support immigration agents. That's in addition to the 2,000 already deployed without the consent of California officials.

Hundreds of marines have also been activated to assist federal agents in the area. The Los Angeles county sheriff says they're still waiting for details on how these agents will be operating.

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SHERIFF ROBERT LUNA, LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT: We have had meetings with the officials, the leadership from the new, I say National Guard, but they're under federal control.

And we're asking simple questions. What's their mission? How are they going to be equipped? Rules of engagement and how they're basically how they're going to be utilized. And we're still getting or waiting for specific information on that.

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LUNA: Obviously whether we like it or not, that is not the case here. We are going to work with any law enforcement or military folks that are here so that we can communicate, coordinate, and honestly, keeping our community safe is my priority.

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LEE: The deployment of a full marine battalion marks a significant escalation in Trump's use of the military as a show of force against protesters like the National Guard. The marines are prohibited from conducting law enforcement activity, such as making arrests unless Trump invokes the Insurrection Act. His border czar Tom Homan says the troops will not try to do the job of the Los Angeles police.

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TOM HOMAN, DONALD TRUMP'S BORDER CZAR: I think -- look, they're not their number one goal. They're not going to be enforcing immigration law. We're doing that. We're immigration officers.

But there's two different lanes of effort here. Number one, we got ICE officers, along with other Department of Justice agencies, FBI, DEA, U.S. Marshals that are out there doing immigration operations, and we're doing them today. We're going to do them tomorrow. We're going to do them every day we're here.

At the same time, you get these protests that are getting out of hand where protesters become criminals and public safety threats.

So we got the National Guard here and the military. Their job is protection of property and protection of our agents and their lives and their well-being, along with the public's well-being.

But when these protests get out of hand, that's when the local authorities step in. And their job is to maintain public safety and public peace.

And last night, LAPD did a pretty good job out there, you know, trying to quell some of this violence down. So there's two different things going on here.

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LEE: Throughout the protests, we've seen LAPD officers moving crowds to areas they can better control using rubber bullets and non-lethal tactics.

Earlier, CNN's Erin Burnett was caught up in the line of fire.

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ERIN BURNETT, CNN ANCHOR: Here, here. Here, here.

Yes. Come, come. Ok, ok. Oh, wow. Ok. All right.

Abby, so you can see here. You see this? All right. Face off here. A lot of rubber bullets going off. You can see they just was a -- hold on. We're behind. Ok? We're just trying to move.

These empty canisters, obviously are from some of the flash bangs. You can see -- I don't know if you can see behind there. Orlando, can you see them? The police all over that one person, whether that's an arrest.

Abby, I don't know if you can see that. Every once in a while, we have to literally sprint here. Ok?

All right. All right. Yes. And do you see this. Abby? Ok. These are the. These are the rubber bullets. I'm holding one. Ok. That was just fired over where we we're. They're firing these at people.

Ok, the bright blue tops, these that -- I'm sorry. I'm just trying to do this and keep the microphone up before it gets really loud. If they start firing again.

These are what people in the crowd have been firing at the ground. Those caused some of the explosions. So like a foam thing, you can smell the explosive on it.

That causes the police to immediately respond and then they charge. And we've seen a lot of people fall. We actually our shot was down for a couple of minutes here because we were running. We're a little bit out of breath.

Just because you have to get away from them, they just start running, they run, and then they start firing a lot of these.

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LEE: And protests are flaring in other U.S. cities as well, including Dallas, Texas. Crowds gathered to express solidarity with Los Angeles amid the demonstrations against immigration raids. They carried signs and waved U.S. and Mexican flags in support of people arrested and detained.

Police vehicles lined the streets as officers pulled some protesters to the ground. And there was a tense standoff between demonstrators and police in riot gear, forming a wall of shields.

Protests against aggressive immigration enforcement in New York City have also continued to escalate. Local authorities say multiple people were taken into custody on Monday. They say the individuals were blocking vehicles and roadways in Lower Manhattan.

New York police have also arrested at least 24 people who refused to leave a protest inside the lobby of Trump Tower. In a statement on X, police commissioner said, quote, "Any attack against law enforcement will be met with a swift and decisive response from the NYPD."

A growing number of migrants in New York are being detained during appointments under ICE's intensive Supervision Appearance Program. The program is meant to allow individuals to remain in their communities while moving through immigration proceedings.

But as CNN's Maria Santana reports, some migrants are now being separated following regularly scheduled check ins.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mom, speak up to -- speak. What the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) why are you being detained? Speak up. These people can't do nothing. Why --

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MARIA SANTANA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: An emotional scene in Lower Manhattan. This is where ICE houses its intensive Supervision Appearance Program, an alternative to detention, which requires immigrants to check in regularly.

Visiting this day is Jaen, a Colombian migrant. We're only using his and his family's first names to protect their identities.

His lawyer warned him that more and more people are being detained at these appointments. So Jaen is afraid of going in.

JAEN, COLOMBIAN IMMIGRANT (through translator): I'm very afraid to go in. They'll most likely separate me from my family in the most abrupt way as has been happening.

SANTANA: With him, his wife Ambar (ph) and 12-year-old daughter Arantza (ph). They're afraid too. They want to wish him luck, but it feels more like a goodbye.

AMBAR, JAEN'S WIFE (through translator): All we ask is to stay together. I mean, we're not doing anything wrong.

SANTANA: Ambar says the family entered the United States two years ago. Father, mother and daughter -- all with asylum claims still pending since then.

CNN has asked DHS about Jaen's case but has not yet heard back, though they told ABC News that those arrested had executable final orders of removal by an immigration judge and had not complied with that order. But Ambar says her husband has no criminal record and has been to all

of his appointments.

AMBAR: We've been doing the best we can.

SANTANA: They grow anxious as agents start bringing people out, and between tears, a prayer, but to no avail.

Ambar can barely look, Jaen's lawyer says his stay of removal is pending, but she hasn't been able to get more information since he was detained.

Maria Santana, CNN -- New York.

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LEE: The latest from Los Angeles is just ahead, including the escalation in the feud between President Trump and California Governor Gavin Newsom.

Stay with us.

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LEE: And we continue to monitor the protests out of Los Angeles and the White House's response.

The U.S. Attorney General says the Justice Department has nine open cases connected to the demonstrations.

CNN's Julia Vargas Jones spoke with one local reverend who is leading a peaceful interfaith demonstration against the Trump administrations immigration policies.

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REV. EDWARD "EDDIE" ANDERSON, MCCARTY MEMORIAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH: I'm here with the interfaith delegation from CLU and L.A. voice, black, Latino, Jewish, Muslim, pastors. We're all coming together because we understand that nonviolent direct action is the way that we win this moral victory.

JULIA VARGAS JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: But you are aware that the National Guard is here, ICE, USCIS are in charge of the people that were detained in those raids.

They're not working in collaboration with the LAPD, right. So they're not under LAPD custody.

What are you -- what are you trying to get from --

ANDERSON: What we're trying to get is to talk to the -- to the ICE agents and demand -- so that we can give them our demands. And we're also trying to make sure that they know that we will not take it anymore in Los Angeles. That we are standing together united.

The labor community, the faith community. We're all together in this. And we want ICE out of our city. We want the federal government out of our city. And we are going to say shame every single time someone comes through here that's trying to take away our people.

JONES: I want to ask you a question. You seem to be with a group that is very peaceful. You've been chanting. You've been singing. You've been praying out here. What is your take on the violence, on the depredation of public property that has been taking place in Los Angeles?

ANDERSON: It is a small group of people. It is agitators. It is what Donald Trump wants to see in our city. He wants to escalate the violence.

But a lot -- most Angelenos are just here because they lost their loved ones. Because their father was taken away. Because their mother's taken away. Because kids are in kindergarten and had a graduation are scared about their parents to be home.

So most Angelenos are standing up as they're supposed to do.

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LEE: A union leader who's arresting the attention of Washington lawmakers has been released from federal custody. David Huerta was arrested last week when officers we're executing a federal search warrant at a Los Angeles business. He has been charged with conspiring to impede an officer during the protest we're seeing in Los Angeles.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and California's Democratic senators wrote letters to federal officials about Huerta's arrest. He's now urging protesters to remain peaceful as the conflict in L.A. continues.

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DAVID HUERTA, PRESIDENT, SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION CALIFORNIA: Nothing will be resolved with violence. Violence begets violence. We need to be able to have -- our movement needs to be one of nonviolence. Our movement needs to be one that we hold each other accountable to creating heaven on earth.

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LEE: CNN's Jason Carroll has more on the release of David Huerta and the ongoing protests in Los Angeles.

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JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A peaceful scene Monday afternoon after a weekend of violence. Protesters gathered in downtown Los Angeles in support of union leader David Huerta, one of dozens arrested during an immigration raid on Friday.

Huerta, accused of trying to block federal agents from accessing a work site, an allegation the union denies.

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ARACELI MARTINEZ, DEMONSTRATOR: We opposed strongly the violations of the rights of all people. Not just the immigrants but all of us Americans are being affected by this because they come for them and

we're all next.

CARROLL: Downtown L.A., heavily guarded, has been declared an unlawful assembly area.

All right. They're removing the -- whoa.

Over the weekend, hundreds of protesters clashed with local law enforcement and the National Guard after ICE raids at the fashion district and a Home Depot near downtown Los Angeles.

Cars set on fire, temporary shutdown of the busy 101 freeway, and a massive police response. And this moment where a reporter was shot by a rubber bullet.

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass told CNN deploying the National Guard was unwarranted.

MAYOR KAREN BASS (D), LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: It's an escalation that didn't have to happen. Why were there raids? You know, we had been told that he was going to go after violent criminals.

It wasn't a drug den. It was a Home Depot. And you add on to that the National Guard and it felt like fuel for a fire that was unnecessary.

CARROLL: And California's governor took to X, writing, "We are suing Donald Trump. The illegal order he signed could allow him to send the military into any state he wishes. This is an unmistakable step towards authoritarianism that threatens the foundation of our republic. We cannot let it stand."

ROB BONTA, CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL: In order that. Abuse the federal government's authority and Violated the 10th amendment and federal law, an order that skipped over multiple, rational, common- sense, strategic steps that should have been deployed to quell unrest and prevent escalation.

CARROLL: The immigrant community of Los Angeles also has this message for President Trump.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are part of that Immigrant community that has made L.A. great, that has made the state of California the fourth largest economy in the world today.

So we have a message for President Donald Trump. Get the National Guardsmen out of here.

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LEE: On Monday, President Trump ordered the Defense Department to deploy 2,000 additional National Guard members. This comes on the same day California filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, asking a judge to declare the deployments unconstitutional.

The spat over federal troops is just the latest fault line in the longtime feud between the president and California Governor Gavin Newsom.

CNN's Jeff Zeleny has more.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I like Gavin Newsom. He's a nice guy, but he's grossly incompetent. Everybody knows.

JEFF ZELENY, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: That old showdown between Donald Trump and Gavin Newsom is back and explosive as ever.

GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM (D), CALIFORNIA: It's my job to clean up Donald Trump's mess because he's making it by the hour.

ZELENY: The president and the California governor have long been tangling over immigration.

TRUMP: I said look, you got to take care of this. Otherwise, I'm sending in the troops. That's what we did.

ZELENY: But their fight is escalating after Trump federalized the National Guard and mobilized marines after violent protests in Los Angeles.

NEWSOM: He's taken the illegal and unconstitutional act of federalizing the National Guard and he's putting lives at risk.

ZELENY: It's the latest chapter in the turbulent relationship between Trump and Newsom who have sparred over tariffs.

NEWSOM: No state is poised to lose more than the state of California. This is recklessness at another level.

ZELENY: And deadly wildfires.

TRUMP: We're going to take care of your water situation and we'll force it down his throat and we'll say, Gavin, if you don't do it, we're not giving you any of that fire money that we send you all the time.

ZELENY: For Trump, the grievance often goes back to California itself.

TRUMP: If Jesus came down and was the vote counter, I would win California.

ZELENY: And the fact he lost the Democratic enclave by more than 20 points and millions of votes, all three times he ran.

NEWSOM: Objectively California is the most un-Trump state in America, and I think that's demonstrable.

ZELENY: Yet beyond the resentment and anger, the two men have also shaken hands and found common cause.

TRUMP: We're obviously from different sides of the spectrum, but we have a very good relationship.

NEWSOM: We've played no politics during COVID with California.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Nothing but cowards.

ZELENY: Those pleasantries are a distant memory with California in Trump's crosshairs again.

TRUMP: We did the right thing. Everybody agrees to that. But you have a governor who let the city burn down.

I think Gavin, in his own way, is probably happy I got involved.

ZELENY: No sign of that as Newsom sued Trump and called his actions an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.

And late Monday, Governor Newsom said he believes that 2,000 more National Guardsmen and women will be sent to California. He said this is not about public safety, but in his words, stroking a dangerous president's ego.

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ZELENY: Jeff Zeleny, CNN -- the White House.

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LEE: Thanks for joining us. I'm M.J. Lee.

CNN NEWSROOM continues with Rosemary Church after a short break.

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