From Seattle to Austin to Washington, D.C., marchers have chanted slogans, carried signs and snarled traffic through downtown avenues and outside federal offices.

Scenes of mayhem and violence have emerged from the protests in Los Angeles. Who are the people clashing with law enforcement and fueling the unrest?

Anti-ICE demonstrators and DHS officers played cat-and-mouse for more than eight hours Tuesday outside the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building in Seattle.

Trump is begging for a fight on this. He knows what he’s doing so far is working with the American electorate," one data analyst noted

HOW WE GOT HERE: The protests erupted after Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers on Friday carried out raids in three locations across L.A., where dozens of people were taken into custody. Newsom called the raids “chaotic federal sweeps” that aimed to fill an “arbitrary arrest quota.”

President Donald Trump is moving swiftly to act on his immigration promises with little internal restraint, determined to test the bounds of his executive authority in order to fulfill the promises of his reelection campaign.

Lauren Tomasi, a 9News correspondent, was reporting live when an officer behind her suddenly raised their firearm and fired a nonlethal round at close range.

California officials, including Governor Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass, have described the move as "unnecessary".