Joined by more than 20 mayors representing cities across Southern California, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Wednesday renewed her call for President Donald Trump to stop federal immigration enforcement raids in the region.
“A week ago, everything was peaceful in the city of Los Angeles, and in all of the representatives behind me, in their cities as well,” Bass said during a news conference Wednesday. “Things began to be difficult on Friday when raids took place.”
Now six days into protests sparked by the immigration enforcement actions, Bass blamed the White House for provoking unrest. The motive behind the federal actions remained unclear, she added.
“Maybe we are part of a national experiment to determine how far the federal government can go, reaching in and taking over power from a governor, power from a jurisdiction, and frankly, leaving our city and our citizens, our residents in fear,” Bass said.
She condemned the Trump Administration for carrying out raids at Home Depot stores, day labor centers, and workplaces, as well as in close proximity to schools.
“When you run armored caravans through out streets, you’re not trying to keep anyone safe. You’re trying to cause fear and panic, and when you start deploying federalized troops on the heels of these raids, it is a drastic and chaotic escalation and completely unnecessary,” Bass said.
The mayor emphasized that the Trump Administration is not targeting criminals, but mothers and fathers, restaurant workers, seamstresses, home care workers — everyday Angelenos trying to make a living.
Paramount Mayor Peggy Lemons thanked Bass for bringing mayors from across the region together during a time of crisis.
“I stand before you today as the mayor of Paramount, a proud tight-knit community that has been deeply shaken by recent events,” Lemons said. “In the last few days, our residents have faced loss, uncertainty and fear for many in our city. This has been one of the most devastating moments in recent memory.”
Lemons said Paramount officials are standing with immigrant residents and have launched efforts to support affected families. The Paramount City Council recently established a special fund to assist immigrant households and is exploring additional ways to provide help.
“We will also be seeking out our residents who have been directly impacts so that they may hear from them and provide direct support,” Lemons said.
Huntington Park Mayor Arturo Flores reiterated that they stand against these “fear-based tactics” targeting immigrant communities.
“We call on federal leaders to uphold civil rights and end the militarization of enforcement and to pursue humane, community-centered solutions,” Flores said. “Our communities are not battlegrounds — deploying military forces and conducting militarized ICE raids in immigrant neighborhoods is not about public safety. It is about political theater that is rooted in fear. It threatens families, traumatizes children and corrodes the foundation trust between local government and the people that we serve.”
Protests have been occurring daily in downtown L.A. area and other parts of the county since Friday, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents carried out a series of raids and detained dozens of people.
Trump initially federalized 2,000 California National Guard troops and ordered them to Los Angeles, a move criticized by Bass, Gov. Gavin Newsom and other local officials who warned it would only heighten tensions and provoke further unrest.
On Monday, Trump doubled down, ordering an additional 2,000 Guard troops and deploying 700 U.S. Marines to Los Angeles to help protect federal facilities and personnel. Pentagon officials said the operation is expected to cost approximately $134 million.
Trump has insisted that his deployment of the National Guard saved the city of Los Angeles.
“If I didn’t `send in the troops’ to Los Angeles the last three nights, that once beautiful and great city would be burning to the ground right now,” he wrote on social media, referring to Newsom and Bass as “incompetent.”
Bass and Grewsom have been putting everyone in farms way with theft, employees in danger, school shooting, home invasion, illegals driving without license and stolen vehicles. Crime! It’s illegal to enter our country illegally. ILLEGAL FOR BASS TO HIDE THE GANGS AND ILLEGALS.
THE EGG TELLING THE HUMAN WHAT HIS LAW IS!
HATE GREED INCOMPETENCE STUPIDITY ARROGANTNESS
You have the uniform code & the code of ethnics that everybody violates..
Then I hear West Coast law group of California is paying these contractors to come out and do this stupid shit on a daily basis to me.
GPS should prove every bit of them stalking me for the last 3 years from Ventura boulevard at Cane’s restaurant opening over there. The one that showed me his ideas the one that tried to get me for a concealed weapon when his cocksucker in the pickup truck was in a Land Rover talking about how he had virtual land on the property.
These charges consist of FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED STALKING, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED INTIMIDATION, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED BRUTALITY, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED CORRUPTION, and FEDERAL AGGRAVATED GREED & FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HATATRED, EVENTUALLY AGGRAVATED TAKING A BRIBE ! IN EVERY OFFICER THERE’S AN OFFSHORE BANK ACCOUNT FOR EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD.
My perception says this is all due to Aryan brotherhood on the D block at San Mateo County Jail where all the murders and everything happened at. right under Christina Corpus deputy Lovejoy.
It’s like every cock sucking coward in the nation had to come out and cause as much shit as they could because they got to suck the man’s dick when they get there.
That’s the reason they have so many offshore bank accounts with everyone at that San Mateo County jail as well as the prison system as well and across the United States of America. Minimum 5 million to $500 billion and every offshore bank account cross the United States of America at every sheriff and police department fire department how everybody that was a celebrity is now dead and they paid every one of your corrupt trustees to go to work for you because how they were just to trainee.
Then you have this arrogant cop over here. On Sunday he comes over here and starts all this shit and has somebody called in from Santa Cruz to come down for an outreach program with a loaded fucking handgun under his goddamn arm both of them had loaded guns on him but yet they’re standing on fucking public property telling me where the fucking go right but when the sheriff’s department gets here they just let the motherfuckers run away right what an incompetent fucking agency. And this chief of police is HARBORING A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE ( WILLIAM MORRELL ) while working for the Department with him smoking His crack cocaine and drinking his whiskey. No clue about vehicular homicide as a drunk mother fucker driving his car with a loaded FIREARM as attempted murder right why your FEDUALLY AGGRAVATED BANK ARMED ROBBERY. Just to get to me on public land you have to go through a public Bank Shopping Center.
Where at in the law does it state that law enforcement has a right to invade in the public business areas doing business with the public we’re at in the law does it state that you have a right to invade in the public?
Then you have them go into Google and tell them that I can’t complain and can’t have a comment on any part of Google or anywhere on the fucking internet anymore because my public rights have been violated by this piece of shit. But this is the kind of education you give your law enforcement in the community right.
In my intuitiveness leads me to believe that the Bakersfield Police Department send some Yahoo’s down here and had your Yahoo in this fucking Community Chase my dick around the whole time because how I caught the Bakersfield Police Department chief of police buying crack cocaine from someone in the fucking City and put it on a video for the Bakersfield Police Department of you and they’ve never done anything but yet they could send these jackasses down here though.
There’s $75 million in a offshore bank account
There’s 75 million different reasons for him to come out here and do this stupid shit everyday
5754 Lindero Canyon Rd, Westlake Village, CA 91362
This is all been going on every day day in and day out everywhere I go it’s the same fucking stupid ass piece of shit that are starting all this shit. Here it is today 06/12/2025
I called for every Marin any one of these cities that I talk talk about to sit in a prison cell whether it’s incompetent – unfit for duty officers and their law enforcement and their justice system