WASHINGTON – National Guard members have started to arrive in Los Angeles after President Donald Trump ordered thousands of troops to the area over tense protests targeting the administration's crackdown on immigration enforcement.

With demonstrations set to continue in the afternoon, area officials have declared an unlawful assembly and responded to protests over the weekend by firing tear gas, pepper spray and flash-bang concussion rounds toward gathering crowds.

Video footage of some of the protests showed dozens of green-uniformed security personnel with gas masks, lined up on a road strewn with overturned shopping carts as small canisters exploded into gas clouds.

Demonstrators allege the Trump administration's immigration enforcement has violated civil and human rights. The s

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