A leader of one of the biggest unions in California was arrested amid protests against federal immigration raids in the Los Angeles area.

According to local media, federal agents were shooting flash-bang grenades into the crowd and shutting part of a freeway amid raids on undocumented migrants, in the suburb of Paramount, California. Crowd was ordered to disperse in the afternoon.

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