Crowds protesting immigration raids ordered to leave downtown

The LAPD has declared the Civic Center area in downtown Los Angeles an “unlawful assembly,” according to a post on X, adding that it had sent an alert to all cell phones in the area.

Local business owners reported that stores in the area of 6th Street and Broadway were being looted, Los Angeles police said in a post on X, adding that its officers were en route to the location to investigate.

In a separate post on X, the LAPD’s Central Division requested all DTLA businesses or residents to photograph all vandalism, damage or looting so that “it can be documented by an official police report.”

Trump’s new ban on travel to the U.S. by nationals from 12 mostly African and Middle Eastern countries took effect at 12:01 a.m. ET as protesters in Los Angeles clashed with law enforcement over immigration enforcement raids.

A proclamation Trump signed last week bars entry to nationals of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. Seven other countries — Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela — face heightened restrictions.

Trump said that nationals from the affected countries might pose risks related to terrorism and public safety and that many of the countries had high rates of people overstaying their visas.

The ban has been strongly condemned as discriminatory by groups that provide aid and resettlement to refugees, who say it will prevent many people from reuniting with family and jeopardize the safety of those fleeing conflict and persecution in countries such as Afghanistan.

In an exclusive interview, Newsom said Trump “has created the conditions” surrounding the Los Angeles protests.

Newsom went on to call Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard “a manufactured crisis,” then addressed White House “border czar” Tom Homan’s threats of arrest.

“Tom, arrest me. Let’s go,” he said. The governor also plans to sue the Trump administration over its deployment of the National Guard.

At least five Waymo cars went up in flames as crowds protested after federal immigration raids. The driverless rides have been suspended in downtown Los Angeles.