If you’ve caught any news recently, you’ll have seen footage of protests going on in the US city of Los Angeles. They’re in response to federal officers carrying out immigration raids, which is all part of US President Donald Trump’s election promise to crack down on illegal immigrants. Political analysts say tensions around the issue of immigration have been rising in the US for months… So in this Squiz Shortcut, we’ll get into what led up to this point, what happened in the protests, and where things are heading…

Watching: The Netflix documentary series Immigration Nation. It follows the operations of ICE officers and takes a deeper look at US immigration…

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