In the days before protests erupted in Los Angeles, the Trump administration stepped up its efforts to detain migrants — taking into custody those who arrived for routine check-ins while also conducting workplace raids that have sent waves of fear across Southern California and beyond.

A week of immigration sweeps across Southern California has left some communities terrified, with fewer people on the streets and signs of an economic slowdown.

President Trump is not my king. He’s my president. Jesus is my king,” Orange County, Calif., resident Evelyn Jones said she’s been telling anti-Trump protesters in Huntington Beach. She said she engaged in several conversations across the aisle Saturday,

Elizabeth Mendoza watched nervously as demonstrators protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration raids and policies clashed with police outside of her Compton restaurant, Restaurante Y Pupuseria La Ceiba.

On Monday, there was a quiet hum of traffic passing on Colorado Boulevard outside the AC Hotel. A hotel employee, who declined to give his name, said it was quiet overnight with no additional protests outside the building. A lone flier that read “ICE out of LA” was placed on a third-floor balcony.

Authorities are looking for four detainees who escaped from an immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey.

The 421-student Springfield school is designed to teach newcomers to the United States. It has been on high alert since President Donald Trump took office and pledged to crack down and change rules on immigration.

Thousands gathered at Houston City Hall for a lively protest early Saturday, cheering as local speakers decried President Trump’s immigration crackdown. Police officers in protective gear ringed parts of a subdued but attentive crowd.

The prime minister has made tackling illegal immigration and "restoring order" to the asylum system a priority for the government. Sir Keir Starmer has promised to "smash the gangs". It follows predecessor Rishi Sunak's pledge to "stop the boats".

The city of Omaha is trying to forge ahead following the raid's chilling effect on the local workforce and the community at large.