Trump vowed throughout his campaign that he would conduct the largest mass deportation in U.S. history. The showdown with Los Angeles was inevitable.

The region is home to one of the nation’s largest and oldest Hispanic communities, which underpins the economy.

From the beginning, Donald Trump’s approach to deportations has been about both removing people from the country and the spectacle of removing people from the country. If any doubt lingered about the president’s commitment to the cause,