Federal and state officials are locked in a high-stakes legal battle over President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy armed forces to Los Angeles during last June’s immigration protests. Critics argue that such an action breaches a century-old law restricting military involvement in domestic policing.

"I have met children who have spent days in jail cells with barely more than ramen noodles to eat, lights on day and night, no sunlight or access to the outside world and the indignity of using the restroom in front of guards.