The armed and masked agents assembled outside the museum where the governor was speaking. Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles called it “a provocative act.”

Agents conducted a border patrol operation outside Gov. Newsom's redistricting news conference in Downtown L.A.

The police chief’s order establishes that Metropolitan Police Department officers may now share information with immigration agencies regarding people not in custody.

The order, amid Trump’s takeover of D.C. police, marks a significant departure for the force, though D.C. law still prohibits police from providing certain types of assistance.

Chief Pamela A. Smith’s order effectively serves as a carve-out to how the department enforces a broader ban that prohibits the local police from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement.

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is preparing to open a second immigration detention facility dubbed ''Deportation Depot'' at a state prison in north Florida, as a federal judge decides the fate of the state's holding center for immigrants at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades known as ''Alligator Alcatraz.