Los Angeles produces small replicas

Los Angeles. Protests against President Donald Trump's immigration raids are spreading across the United States despite the deployment of the National Guard and Marines in Los Angeles and threats of repression.

In Los Angeles, where the riots began last week, calm reigned on the streets of downtown yesterday.

"I would say that, for the most part, everything is in order here at Ground Zero," said protester Lynn Sturgis, a 66-year-old retired teacher.

"Our city is not on fire, it's not burning, as our terrible leader tries to tell you," he added, referring to President Trump.

"If our troops didn't come into Los Angeles, it would be burning right now," Trump said on social media yesterday. He added that its residents were "very lucky."

Despite Trump's threats to deploy the National Guard to other Democratic-governed states, protests continue to spread.

Thousands of people demonstrated in New York on Tuesday night, and protests also took place in Chicago.

Demonstrations are also planned for Wednesday in New York, Seattle, Las Vegas, and other cities.

Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the deployment of the National Guard to a protest scheduled for Wednesday in San Antonio.

Organizers are threatening demonstrations on Saturday, when Trump will preside over a military parade in downtown Washington.

In a speech at a military base on Tuesday, Trump warned that any protests during the Washington military parade would be met with "very strong force."

Yesterday, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the deployment of thousands of troops to Los Angeles was intended to maintain law and order while federal agents do their work.

The migration!

When officers got out of several trucks in the parking lot of a construction supply store in Los Angeles last week, about 100 undocumented workers ran away shouting "La Migra!", terrified at the thought of being deported.

"It's like something out of a movie," recalled Óscar Mendía, a Guatemalan who counted 25 migrants arrested in last Friday's raid near a Home Depot. "People were hiding under wood, in the trash, wherever they could find a little hole."

The operation was part of the anti-immigration crackdown the Trump administration launched that day on factories and workplaces in the second-largest city in the United States, sparking five days of protests and riots.

"It all started here," Mendía said, pointing to the parking lot where there were now barely twenty people.

The Guatemalan, who has lived undocumented in the United States for 26 years, had never been in a raid.

It's one thing to see it on television, he said, and another to experience it.

"You're like terrified, you get scared when you see a van, like that one, look," he said, pointing to a white pickup truck.