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 Massachusetts senators called for the investigation in a letter sent Wednesday to the US Department of Homeland Security.

An escalating clash pits a Republican president looking to fulfill his mass deportation goals against a Democratic governor with White House aspirations hoping to mobilize opposition. The

Five men have been charged following a series of raids across Greater Manchester and London as part of a crackdown on organised immigration crime. Four men aged between 19 and 47 from Greater Manchester and a 19-year-old man from London were charged following Tuesday operation.

At a peaceful vigil in downtown Los Angeles, interfaith community leaders came together for prayer, support and healing.

Large-scale arrests outside immigration courts have unleashed fear among asylum-seekers and immigrants who are accustomed to remaining free while judges grind through a backlog of 3.6 million cases.

U.S. meat producer Glenn Valley Foods was operating an Omaha, Nebraska, facility with about 30% of its staff on Wednesday after federal agents detained workers in an immigration raid the previous day,