India, June 10 -- Peter Arenella, a retired professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), has sounded alarm over the state of things in Los Angeles, where protests against Trump administration's immigration raids have taken a violent turn.

Arenella is now based in Mexico with his Mexico-born wife Mia. His three adult stepchildren, however, are still in the United States. In a post shared on the social media platform X, the retired professor of law said he has urged his stepchildren to carry their passports with them at all times after one of them witnessed an ICE raid where people with "brown skin" were taken into custody.

Tensions in Los Angeles began on June 6, when federal immigration officers associated with ...