Hordes of protestors emerged in LA over the weekend to protest ongoing ICE raids targeting illegal immigrants living in the nation's second-largest city.
Rioters donning face masks clashed with police and federal agents, sometimes violently, as activists shot fireworks at law enforcement and dangerously hurled rocks at ICE vehicles conducting operations.
Scenes of LA rioters standing before burnt out cars waving Mexican flags quickly became viral images of the stand against President Donald Trump's illegal migrant crackdown.
The president has slammed the multi-day riots, claiming Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass should apologize for allowing the civil unrest and damage.
The president charged that the crowd is not full of 'peaceful protesters' as the Democrat duo claimed, but 'troublemakers and insurrectionists.'
At least 56 people were arrested over the weekend as rioters set cars on fire, shut down freeways and looted businesses, according to local police.
Some of the illegal immigrants that rioters clashed with authorities to protect from ICE have rap sheets, according to information provided to the Daily Mail by a senior administration official.
According to data shared with the Daily Mail, numerous illegal migrants arrested on Sunday have prior convictions, including for narcotics violations and cruelty against children.
The most chilling rap sheet reviewed is that of Eswin Uriel Castro, a Mexican national previously deported from the U.S., according to the administration.
Castro has criminal convictions for being armed with a dangerous weapon and child molestation, according to the administration. He also has been arrested for robbery and domestic violence, the data shows.
'The radical rioters in Los Angeles and their Democrat enablers are fighting against the arrest of child molesters and hardened criminals,' the senior administration official told the Daily Mail. 'ICE is undeterred and will continue keeping America safe.'
Another Mexican national, Miguel Angel Palafox-Montes, has been deported twice already, according to the White House. He has past criminal convictions for grand theft, narcotics violations and identity theft.
Palafox-Montes has also been arrested for battery and burglary, the information reviewed by the Daily Mail shows.
ICE also arrested Nicaraguan national Anastacio Enrique Solis-Salinas who has convictions for hit and run and domestic violence in addition to past arrests for willful cruelty to a child, according to the administration.
Federal officers also arrested Rafael Gamez-Sanchez, a Mexican national, on Sunday for immigration violations, according to information provided by the administration. He has a criminal conviction for vehicular manslaughter, according to the White House.
As of Saturday evening, ICE had arrested at least 118 individuals in Los Angeles over the past week, including five gang members, according to a social media post.
'These heinous criminals, including child abusers and pedophiles, are some of the illegal aliens arrested yesterday in Los Angeles,' DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told the Daily Mail in a statement.
She also condemned Newsom and Bass for caring 'more about violent criminal illegal aliens than they do about protecting their own citizens.'
'These rioters in Los Angeles are fighting to keep rapists, murderers, and other violent criminals loose on Los Angeles streets. Instead of rioting, they should be thanking ICE officers every single day who wake up and make our communities safer.'
