Police declared all of downtown Los Angeles to be an unlawful assembly area and ordered protesters to go home on Sunday night after a third day of violence hit demonstrations against President Donald Trump's immigration policy.

Thousands of protesters took to the street in Los Angeles on Sunday in response to President Donald Trump's extraordinary deployment of the National Guard against Gov. Gavin Newsom's wishes. The

Clashes between protestors and law enforcement turned violent in Los Angeles as demonstrations against ICE raids ramped up over the weekend. President Trump deployed the National Guard to the area, and the military confirmed to CBS News that hundreds of active duty Marines are now on standby to respond to the unrest.

Local residents in one Los Angeles-area community cleaned up streets and erased graffiti while expressing dismay at the damage caused during violent clashes between protesters and immigration authorities over the weekend.

Michael Alcazar, a retired New York Police Department detective, tells “Morning in America” that he believes President Donald Trump made the right decision to deploy the National Guard in Los Angeles,

California Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the Trump administration to rescind the deployment, saying the federal government was moving to "take over the California National Guard," calling the move "purposefully inflammatory" and saying it will "only escalate tensions."