Since immigration agents detained his wife in New Orleans last month, a Marine veteran has ferried the couple's nine-week-old daughter a north Louisiana detention facility while the family waits to learn whether she will be deported.

Louisiana's GOP-dominated Legislature passed a package of bills this week that were designed to aid in federal crackdowns on migrants suspected of entering the country illegally.

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum "deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen to address the lawlessness" in California as demonstrations opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations continue in the state, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Saturday evening.

Philadelphia’s official stance is that local law enforcement doesn’t help U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement perform arrests, though the language the city uses to communicate that has quietly changed as lawmakers hope to avoid becoming targets of the Trump administration, which has threatened billions in funding.

The LAPD chief said in a department-wide message this week that some officers face conflicting feelings of "loyalty, frustration, fear, or sometimes even shame as the community mistakenly views you as part of something that you are not.

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.

They are also encouraging migrants in the U.S. to return to their home countries on their own. Trump has offered $1,000 and a free commercial flight to people willing to “self deport.” But even with that incentive, immigrants aren’t leaving the country at the pace Trump promised.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested 10 individuals at the Sterling immigration court Wednesday during an enforcement operation.

Police agencies in metro Phoenix want it to be known that they are not involved in ICE enforcement activity, even if they are at the scene.

Customs and Border Patrol confirmed it is providing "aerial support" to law enforcement efforts during the protests.