
Chaotic scenes from immigration arrests around the country continued emerging over the weekend asPresident Donald Trump's crackdownwidened. The arrests claimed immigrant mothers, restaurant workers and wanted criminals. Immigration authorities raided a popular San Diego Italian restaurant before the Friday dinner rush, arresting several kitchen workers, while community members confronted agents, according to video shared bya local CBS station. As heavily armed agents entered the restaurant, local residents screamed at them and filmed the scene. The agents wore tactical gear, including bulletproof vests emblazoned with the Homeland Security Investigations logo. "The agents fired sound grenades, flash-bang grenades, at the crowd," Pedro Rios, director of the Quaker American Friends Service Committee's U.S.-Mexico Border Program, told CBS. Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,told FOX Newsthat agents were doing their law enforcement duty during the raid. "We should be supported, not being called Nazis, not being villainized," he said. Earlier last week, ICE agents were seen arresting immigrants directlyafter their scheduled immigration hearingsat a San Antonio, Texas, courthouse – doubling down on a tactic that has caused an outcry among immigrant advocates. "Families are being targeted at their most vulnerable time – attending their scheduled immigration hearings for what they believe to be progress in their cases," according toa statementby the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. The statement links to a video that appears to showICE agents arresting a motheralongside four children inside the courthouse, including a minor withhis hands zip-tied behind his back. Another videooutside the same courthouse, undated but posted Friday, May 30, by advocacy group Unidos Podemos, showed the emotional scene of two mothers and a child being loaded by plainclothes agents into the narrow chamber of a vehicle outfitted to carry prisoners. The child stands on the bumper, his arms outstretched. He says in Spanish, "It's OK, Mom, I'm here. It's OK." ICE, which has a significant social media presence, has largely refrained from sharing emotional or chaotic arrest videos and instead postsmugshots of arrested immigrantswith serious criminal records. The agency publicized its recent arrests of a Honduran man facing burglary and sexual battery charges, a convicted sex offender from El Salvador and a Venezuelan woman convicted of felonies in California and wanted on other charges in New York. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Immigration crackdown leads to chaotic scenes as ICE touts arrests