Mayor Karen Bass pledged to do “whatever it takes” to protect all Angelenos from ICE raids while admitting the city may not be able to keep the sanctuary status.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is speaking out against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who took over MacArthur Park where children were playing, calling the takeover attempt “absolutely outrageous,” USA Today reported. Video footage shows armored vehicles, officers ,and armed troops swarming a soccer field on a sunny July 7 day.

Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Monday demanded federal agents leave the scene at a MacArthur Park immigration raid.

Federal authorities have not explained the point of the exercise. But local authorities believe it was to sow fear as part of a continuing crackdown on the “sanctuary city” that has stood up to President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration agenda.

U.S. military troops and federal immigration officers made a mighty but brief show of force Monday at MacArthur Park dubbed the “Ellis Island of the West Coast” as the community hub of a largely immigrant neighborhood in Los Angeles.

Back in May, congressional Republicans and the Department of Homeland Security got their feelings hurt when Minnesota Gov.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass sparked a social media firestorm on Monday after she attempted to stop ICE agents from conducting a raid at a park known for criminal activity.

Dozens of heavily armed federal agents in military-style gear conducted an apparent immigration enforcement operation on Monday morning in Los Angeles’s MacArthur Park, provoking outrage from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass,