U.S. military troops and federal immigration officers made a brief but mighty show of force Monday at a Los Angeles park in a neighborhood dubbed the “Ellis Island of the West Coast" for its large immigrant population.

California National Guard soldiers arriving in Humvee military vehicles backed a Monday sweep of a park in a neighborhood of Los Angeles heavily populated by immigrants, according to L.A. Mayor Karen Bass.

Armed US troops have been deployed to Los Angeles to protect federal officials in an immigration enforcement operation.