John Oliver rang the alarm on Donald Trump's authoritarianism over his response to the largely peaceful L.A. protests against escalating ICE raids

In the days before protests erupted in Los Angeles, the Trump administration stepped up its efforts to detain migrants — taking into custody those who arrived for routine check-ins while also conducting workplace raids that have sent waves of fear across Southern California and beyond.

Here is what happened on each day the protests against immigration detention operations in the Los Angeles area.

Trump challenged ICE to deliver "the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History" by expanding efforts in large cities led by Democrats.

The protests resonate with many Filipinos and Asians in the US as they come from immigrant families themselves, experts say.

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

Arrest made in Los Angeles after a man allegedly attacked CHP officers and set a patrol car on fire during a protest.

Mayor Karen Bass said Sunday that Los Angeles does not need National Guard troops to bolster city police amid protests against raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, despite violent incidents.

Trump in a social media posting called on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials “to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.

Pop singer Olivia Rodrigo spoke out in favor of the anti-ICE protests throughout Los Angeles in an Instagram Stories post that condemned immigration raids.