Vice President JD Vanceis heading to Los Angeles to meettroops deployed to quell protestsagainst the Trump administration'simmigration enforcementactions. Vance's trip on June 20 is the highest-level visit by a Trump administration official to a city that has becomethe epicenter of resistanceagainst aWhite House campaign to deport millionsof immigrants from the country. A brief issued Friday by the vice president's office said he will tour a multi-agency Federal Joint Operations Center and a Federal Mobile Command Center in Los Angeles. Vance, a former Marine, is scheduled to meet with leadership and Marines and deliver brief remarks. He is also expected to hold a news conference. Protests against ICE raids erupted in Los Angeles in early June. Nationwide"No Kings" protestsagainst Trump's aggressive expansion of executive power occurred on June 14 in cities across the country A small minority of protesters in Los Angeles violently attacked federal law enforcement, and PresidentDonald Trumprespondedby deploying the California National Guard, despite objections by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The Democrat-led city is home to millions of immigrants and is a melting pot of Latino, Asian and other cultures. More:Trump using National Guard for deportation work could go into 'uncharted territory' Some 4.2 million people, or nearly a third of the 13 million residents of greater Los Angeles, are foreign-born, according to a Migration Policy Instituteanalysis of U.S. Census data. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Vance travels to LA to meet Marines deployed against protesters