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As anti-ICE demonstrations in Los Angeles continued for the fourth day in a row on Monday, the Wall Street Journal was on the ground.

This is the demonstration for David Huerta.

The union president for the SEIU union, which is the represents the service employees of the California chapter.

Followed by a march down to the courthouse where Huerta is due in court.

If you are in any way involved of the local government up to the state level seeing, you know exactly who David Huerta is.

He has brought a lot of dignity and a lot of story to the workers that take on those jobs that nobody else wants to do.

Huerta was arrested on Friday while protesting an ICE raid.

He was charged with conspiracy to impede an officer.

What you see out here today in Los Angeles is working people coming together to obviously say free David Huerta and end the raids now.

But I also think what you see is working people coming together to declare.

This is our city, our community, our country, and we are not going to be terrorized.

We're going to stand up and we're going to push back and we're going to speak out, we are gathering peacefully with joy and solidarity, and I'm just and I'm incredibly proud to be here today.

I'm here to show that you can be a liberal and you can be a patriot, that you can be pro-immigrant.

I'm frustrated with the local and state response because I feel like this has been politicized, not just by Trump and his administration, but also by Democrats.

The fact that Democrats are telling us and tweeting, this is what Trump's doing, as if we don't know, my question in return is, what are you doing?

Tell us what you're going to be actively doing to protect us.

Huerta appeared in court where he was released from federal custody on a $50,000 bond and told to surrender his passport.

The US military announced that roughly 700 Marines were being mobilized to Los Angeles, the first time in more than three decades that Marines have been sent into a US city to address civil unrest.

Trump administration officials say the move is to protect federal workers and buildings.

California Governor Newsom called the move a blatant abuse of power in a post on X.

As the day went on, tensions between the protesters and law enforcement, including the National Guard, began to escalate.

We are here on the corner of Los Angeles and Temple Street.

What is now the heart of the protest today.

And we had an hours long standoff between protesters, the National Guard and the sheriffs in front of this federal building here.

The protest at this moment has significantly ramped up over the last 20 minutes or so.

That follows, you know, a day of much calmer protest than yesterday.

Oh, certainly you can hear those flash grenades.

The National Guard and sheriff office pushing this way.

The Trump administration announced it would be sending an additional 2,000 National Guard members to Los Angeles.

Protests are expected to continue this week.

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