On Thursday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained several undocumented immigrants throughout the Los Angeles area in a massive deportation raid that follows President Donald Trump's controversial executive order to expel unauthorized immigrants that have committed criminal offenses.

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According to lawyers and activists, ICE agents have detained as many as 134 people from their workplaces and homes across several cities, including Santa Paula, Oxnard, Van Nuys, San Bernardino and Downey.

Immigrant rights advocates say that number is unusual.

“We know the daily patterns of people being picked up and taken,” Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, or CHIRLA, told The Washington Post. “There’s a natural flow of enforcement that happens every day. But this was not normal.”

According to her, routine immigration operations typically detain three to five people, making a sweep throughout seven counties appear as an outcome of Trump’s order.

ICE, however, has stated that, despite several attorneys’ claims, the agency did not detain more than 100 immigrants and that they were operating as normal.

“Our operations are targeted and lead driven, prioritizing individuals who pose a risk to our communities. Examples would include known street gang members, child sex offenders, and deportable foreign nationals with significant drug trafficking convictions,” an ICE spokesperson said in a statement. “To that end, ICE’s routine immigration enforcement actions are ongoing and we make arrests every day.”

This is a similar position taken under the Obama administration, which prioritized deporting immigrants with violent criminal records that were perceived as threats. Under Trump’s executive order, the net is much wider, including unauthorized immigrants who have been convicted of any crime, including minor, nonviolent offenses. Among the people detained on Thursday, Salas has learned about one man who had a speeding ticket and another who wasn’t even convicted of a crime.

The latter was taken into custody from his apartment. ICE officials were looking for a different person with an outstanding warrant at the same address, but when they found this man, they detained him, even though his record is clean. Fortunately the man, who had legal representation, was removed last-minute from a van filled with others en route to be deported to Mexico.

In Los Angeles, law enforcement has vowed not to participate in Trump’s mass deportations, telling the Los Angeles Times, “We are working hard with the immigrant communities to dispel fears.”

Protests brought many out to the streets on Thursday night, where demonstrators called on officials to not tear families apart.

In response to the raid and expressed opposition, California Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) released a statement.

“It is now clear the Trump Administration is not concerned with public safety, they are only focused on ripping hard-working men, women, and children from their families and communities,” he said. “Mass deportations will not make us safer, instead they will simply undermine our state’s economy.”

Other local officials, including State Sen. Tony Mendoza (D-Los Angeles) and Assemblyman Miguel Santiago (D-Los Angeles), took to Twitter to make similar remarks.

.@ICEgov refusing to list how many were detained today or provide names. Refusing access to counsel so no way to verify what they're saying — Kevin de Leόn (@kdeleon) February 10, 2017

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At 1 million, the Los Angeles metro area has the second-largest undocumented immigrant population in the country, behind New York City, with 1.2 million. Four more of the 20 areas with the biggest unauthorized immigrant populations are also in California, and they include Riverside-San Bernardino, San Francisco, San Diego and San Jose.