People are voicing concerns after a senator was detained while asking questions about Donald Trump's ICE raids. Civil unrest erupted in Los Angeles over the past week in the wake of arrests made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in areas with significant Latino populations.

During an interview with CNN correspondent Kyung Lah, California Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters reacted to Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard and branded him 'cruel'

Harold Ezell, the former Immigration and Naturalization Service Director who helped author Prop 187, later declared that the “biggest mistake the opposition made was waving those green and white flags with the snake on it. They should have been waving the American flag.”

Gavin Newsom (D) on Tuesday accused President Donald Trump of a “brazen abuse of power” for mobilizing National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles and warned that the United States was facing a “perilous moment” under a president “who wants to be bound by no law or constitution.

Many Democrats are concerned — and Republicans are convinced — that the images of violence and mayhem coming from Los Angeles will boost President Donald Trump. Polls show that Trump still enjoys a net positive approval rating on immigration — and anytime it dominates a news cycle means less attention on the flagging popularity of his policies on inflation,

Kris Hernández, an associate professor of history at Connecticut College, said the flying of foreign flags in the U.S. has always brought awareness to the plight of marginalized