Since President Donald Trump sent the military to Los Angeles, practically everything about the protests and the federal response has lacked a connection to reality.

Hundreds of protesters who spent the Fourth of July in downtown Los Angeles to rally against the immigration raids that have roiled the region and the surge in federal funding approved this week to keep them going.

A federal immigration detention center in Los Angeles has drawn protests and a military presence since June. While interviewing the son of a man recently

Federal agents were met by dozens of protesters Thursday when they descended Glass House Farms in rural Camarillo, Calif., to conduct an immigration enforcement operation.

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed what appeared to be tear gas canisters and less-than-lethal rounds into the crowd.

An LAPD official said 86 complaints are under investigation as of Friday, including 59 cases of possible excessive force and three in which people were hospitalized.

When therapy didn’t help, Pitchenik, who uses the pronoun they, started going to the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, the country’s biggest public provider of gender-affirming care for children and teens. It changed their life.

But, in Los Alamitos, the troop presence hasn’t been a bother for the surrounding community, Hasselbrink said. Most troop activity has been confined to the two-square-mile area, keeping traffic and other potential hassles to a minimum.