Ernest Melendrez woke up early Sunday to shovel tear gas pellets and other charred and broken detritus from his neighborhood’s streets, the remnants of a battle between protesters demonstrating against immigration raids and federal and local authorities the night before.

President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to California following escalating violence among some anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles.

National Guard troops ordered in by President Trump began arriving on Sunday, when protests against a series of raids on workplaces were expected to continue for a third day.