Local law enforcement officials aren’t part of federal immigration enforcement operations, as many agencies have been quick to note. State law, in fact, specifically prohibits local law

California demonstrators protesting the federal immigration raids blocked traffic on a major Los Angeles freeway. NBC News' David Noriega reports on the continuing anti-ICE protest.

The Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive moves on immigration are pulling Democrats back into a border security debate they had tried to ignore. For months, Democrats scarred by the politics of the issue sought to sidestep President Donald Trump’s immigration wars — focusing instead on the economy,