A cloud of uncertainty is hanging over Los Angeles, where questions remain over the role that Marines and National Guard troops will play after being called in by President Donald Trump amid protests over immigration raids in the city.

President Donald Trump has deployed 4,000 National Guardsmen and 700 Marines to LA. But California Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta are suing the Trump administration, saying they unlawfully "trampled over" California’s sovereignty when they federalized the California National Guard.

The protests began Friday after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents carried out coordinated raids across Los Angeles, detaining dozens of workers at warehouses and other worksites. The arrests sparked immediate backlash, with demonstrators converging outside federal buildings, blocking freeways, and in some cases clashing with police.

Protests surrounding immigration enforcement actions in the Los Angeles area and the Trump administration’s response to them have cued up a public spat between President Donald Trump and Gov. Gavin Ne

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s federalization of National Guard troops to quell violent Los Angeles riots is a constitutional use of presidential authority. During the Biden administration,

Jacob Soboroff, NBC News Correspondent joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House live from the Metropolitan Detention center where the National Guard is stationed with an up close look at what today’s protests look like and how Donald Trump’s mobilization of the California National Guard as put troops face to face with protestors who happen to be their own neighbors.

National Guard members and Marines deployed to Los Angeles cannot perform law enforcement duties by law. That would change if Trump invokes the Insurrection Act.

The curfew will extend to a section of downtown Los Angeles where protests have turned into instances of vandalism.