The members of California’s National Guard were seen staging early Sunday at the federal complex in downtown Los Angeles that includes the Metropolitan Detention Center.

President Donald Trump's administration said it would deploy 2,000 National Guard troops on Saturday as federal agents in Los Angeles faced off against a few hundred demonstrators during a second day of protests following immigration raids.

National Guard troops and protesters faced off in Los Angeles on Sunday in an uneasy impasse at a federal detention center in Los Angeles, before city police moved in to try to disperse the crowd.The tense gatherings followed two days of skirmishes over federal immigration operations that President Trump cited in his decision to send in the state’s National Guard over the governor’s objections.