Several Trump administration officials fired back at Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Friday after she pledged to oppose federal efforts to nab illegal immigrants — as cops in her city had to use flash bangs to disperse the violent mob of protesters who descended on the arrest sites.

Two people were pinned to the ground and arrested by ICE agents who laid in wait in the hallways outside federal immigration courtrooms Friday afternoon, as a blitz of migrant arrests at

SAN JOSE – Around 50 people gathered Friday afternoon to protest an increase in Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Jose, blasting the agency for making arrests outside courtrooms and in plainclothes and calling on public officials to take action.

The showdown over spending on immigration enforcement is the latest chapter in the mounting tension between the powers of Congress and executive branch.

Authorities landed the flight at the base in Djibouti, about 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) from South Sudan, more than two weeks ago after U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Boston found the Trump administration had violated his order by swiftly sending eight migrants from countries including Cuba and Vietnam to the east African nation.

The ICE officers and deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the East African nation of Djibouti. They also face the threat of malaria and rocket attacks.

The current number of illegal migrants in ICE custody is beyond what is funded by Congress and sources say more facilities are going to be opening to continue to expand the number of available