A demonstrator kneels Thursday before federal agents in a farm field during an immigration raid in Camarillo, California.
Mandatory Credit:	Michael Owen Baker/AP via CNN Newsource

A demonstrator kneels Thursday before federal agents in a farm field during an immigration raid in Camarillo, California.
Mandatory Credit: Michael Owen Baker/AP via CNN Newsource

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Tensions are rising in Southern California over immigration raids. Here’s what we know

On the heels of major shows of force by federal immigration agents in Southern California, a judge is set to rule in a lawsuit seeking to halt immigration raids in Los Angeles. The developments again thrust a spotlight on a region that emerged weeks ago as an epicenter of large-scale immigration raids by the Trump administration – and of tense protests against the actions that often yielded arrests of their own.