Franchesca Olivas drove two hours alone from Hemet to attend the anti-ICE demonstration this week outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. She was carrying an upside-down American flag attached to the Mexican flag because she’s half-white and half-Mexican.

A demonstrator is taken into custody as Tucson police move to break up the last of a protest at Valencia and Country Club in Tucson on June 11, 2025. A demonstrator stands defiantly during a stand off with Tucson police after fighting with security outside an ICE facility on south Country Club in Tucson on June 11,

CNN is tracking the LA protests against ICE and the Trump administration and those that have spread across the US this week.