Thousands of people chanted, picketed and marched on cities across America as May Day demonstrations raged against President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
Police, referring to the perpetrators as "anarchists" said they made more than two dozen arrests.
Police said on Twitter Monday that anarchists destroyed a police vehicle, damaged numerous windows and property, started fires in the streets and attacked police.
Among them is 28-year-old Brenda Burciaga, a US citizen whose mother is set to be deported to Mexico soon.
Thousands of people turned out in some 200 USA cities on Monday to reject the immigration policies of President Donald Trump in huge demonstrations.
The Washington marchers began their trek through the city at Dupont Circle and ended up at the White House.
Activists said they were trying to make the demonstrations the largest immigrant protests since Trump's inauguration on January 20.
During the march, the demonstrators displayed signs with messages such as "We don't lead the United States but we make the USA work", while others shouted slogans such as "Trump says go back and we counterattack".
But Monday's rallies were about more than protecting immigrants or workers - they were about fighting against policies that protesters claimed undermine basic health care, environmental justice, women's rights and affordable housing.
International Workers' Day was heavily endorsed by socialist and communist parties, so in 1921, it became known as Americanization Day in the U.S. Then in 1955, during the Cold War, Congress and President Dwight D. Eisenhower renamed it Loyalty Day.
The government has arrested thousands of immigrants in the country illegally and threatened to withhold funding from jurisdictions that limit co-operation between local and national immigration authorities.
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Salvador Zelaya owns a commercial construction company with offices in Washington and Alexandria, Virginia, and says he's paying his workers to take a day off and attend the march to the White House.
This year's demonstrations - planned in major cities from NY to Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles as well as in smaller communities like Scranton, Pennsylvania - are to focus on other issues in addition to labor, including women's and immigrants' rights.
Labor groups representing labourers, hospital and home nursing care workers, food workers, teachers and others, called for a higher minimum wage.
Hundreds of workers, business owners and families have rallied in five CT cities to support immigrants' rights.
The Mercury News in San Jose reports (http://bayareane.ws/2pAcz9E) about 10,000 demonstrators were expected for the city's afternoon demonstration.
Despite the California clash, the initial rounds of nationwide protests were largely peaceful as immigrants, union members and their allies staged a series of strikes, boycotts and marches to draw attention to the importance of immigrants in the United States. If passed, the bill would prevent local and state police from deporting residents who haven't committed any crimes.
In Portland, Ore., about 200 people protested, including some families with children.
Organizers say tens of thousands are expected to march downtown to City Hall on Monday after groups that held separate May 1 events in the past joined together this year.
Mr Trump, in his first 100 days, has intensified immigration enforcement, including executive orders for a wall along the US-Mexico border and a ban on travellers from six predominantly Muslim countries.
Indian workers and members of various trade unions dressed in red take part in a rally on the occasion of International Workers' Day in Bangalore.
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