US National Guard troops have begun arriving in Los Angeles on orders from President Donald Trump, to stamp out protests that have broken out in recent days against federal immigration authorities seeking to carry out deportations in the region.

The members of California’s National Guard were seen mobilising on Sunday at the federal complex in central Los Angeles that includes the Metropolitan Detention Centre, where confrontations have been taking place over the the last two days.

Confrontations broke out on Saturday near a Home Depot shop in the heavily Latino city of Paramount, south of Los Angeles, where federal agents were preparing at a Department of Homeland Security office nearby.

Agents unleashed tear gas, flash-bang explosives and pepper balls, and protesters hurled rocks and

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