Vincent Scardina supported Donald Trump’s tough stance on immigration at the ballot box. But that decision came back to bite the roofing boss when ICE detained a third of his workforce. The six men, all from Nicaragua,

"They are legally here. They have an authorization to stay," Regilucia Smith, the attorney for the men, told NBC South Florida.

ICE has characterised those arrested in LA as "the worst of the worst". The agency identified a handful of people with criminal histories, including drug trafficking, assault, cruelty to children, domestic violence, robbery and alien smuggling. How many have criminal histories, however, is unclear.

Protests against immigration officers are spreading beyond Los Angeles. Trump’s immigrant crackdown now includes ICE workplace quotas. Republicans are increasingly split over the deficit impact of Trump’s bill.

The Trump administration has pledged to carry out the largest mass deportation in U.S. history and has conducted numerous ICE raids.

A judge said Ramón Morales Reyes isn't a danger to the public and granted him bond, one week after a Wisconsin man was charged with framing Reyes as the author of threatening letters.

When President Donald Trump put 2,000 National Guard troops under his control on Saturday night and ordered them into Los Angeles, it was billed as an urgent response to quell protests. But it was also a move long in the making.

The hearing, set before U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco, will set off a rare test over the legality of a military deployment on American soil.