Protests against immigration raids have spread from Los Angeles to New York to multiple cities in Texas.
The protests in New York are mostly peaceful, but "multiple" arrests have been made, as we reported earlier.
The National Guard has been deployed in Texas. As BBC North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher reports, Conservative-dominated Texas "appears determined to present a sharp contrast to how the situation has unfolded in Los Angeles".
Altogether, protests have started in at least ten US cities, including LA, New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Austin and San Francisco.
As the protests against the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement actions spread to other American cities, one of the largest Republican-controlled states appears determined to present a sharp contrast to how situation has unfolded in Los Angeles.
Conservative-dominated Texas has frequently served as a political mirror image to California. Now its governor, Greg Abbott, has ordered his state’s National Guard to deploy in advance of planned demonstrations in San Antonio.
According to local media, Abbott's office stated: "Texas National Guard soldiers are on standby in areas where mass demonstrations are planned in case they are needed ... Texas will not tolerate the lawlessness we have seen in Los Angeles."
The move may indicate a lack of confidence by the governor in the police force of one of his largest cities. More than that, however, it is meant as a message – to California, to the Abbott’s allies in the Trump administration and to the American public – that Republicans know how to maintain law and order.
The move is not without risk, however. It could provoke larger demonstrations in the state’s Democratic-dominated big cities. And if Texas protests turn violent anyway, it could undercut the Republican case that they know better than Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Democrats.
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