Dozens of mayors from across the Los Angeles region banded together Wednesday to demand that the Trump administration stop the stepped-up immigration raids that have spread fear across their cities and sparked protests across the U.

Demonstrators hit the streets again in L.A. after President Trump deployed the National Guard due to protests against ICE raids.

Protests against these moves have increased, too. While most have remained peaceful, the Department of Homeland Security reported a more than 400% surge in assaults on agents.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.

Downtown Los Angeles bustled Wednesday with dog-walkers and commuters touting coffee cups, returning to business as usual after the first night of curfew meant to tamp down tensions following days of protests over President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and officials from more than a dozen other cities in L.A. County banded together on Wednesday, June 11, offering a unified message to President Donald Trump and his administration: End the immigration raids and stop sowing unnecessary fear in our communities.

The protests taking place across Los Angeles are heightening fears in America's largest county, a place still recovering from the wildfires tragedy.

A federal court hearing is scheduled for Thursday on whether the Trump administration can use the National Guard and Marines to assist with immigration raids in Los Angeles. California Gov. Newsom has depicted the federal military intervention in the nation's second largest city as the onset of a much broader effort by Trump to overturn political and cultural norms at the heart of the nation’s democracy.

SKYCAL was overhead as the man erratically drove through downtown Los Angeles while hundreds of demonstrators were protesting ICE operations on Sunday.