Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Tuesday spoke out against the ongoing immigration raids after the announcement of a federal lawsuit attacking L.A.’s sanctuary city policies.
In addition to the numerous raids and detentions, federal officials also have provoked protesters and exaggerated the scale of violence, unnecessarily deployed troops to L.A. and blamed local leaders for the disorder, Bass said.
“This is essentially an all-out assault against Los Angeles,” Bass said.
In announcing the federal suit, U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said the legal action “holds the City of Los Angeles accountable for deliberately obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration law.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi also made that case in the complaint.
“Sanctuary policies were the driving cause of the violence, chaos and attacks on law enforcement that Americans recently witnessed in Los Angeles,” she said. “Jurisdictions like Los Angeles that flout federal law by prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens are undermining law enforcement at every level – it ends under President Trump.”
Bass instead characterized the federal lawsuit as an attempt to undermine local authority. Despite those efforts, she said, “we will stand strong.”
“We do so because the people snatched off city streets and chased through parking lots are our coworkers, our neighbors, our family members, and they are Angelenos,” she said.
The federal crackdown on Los Angeles is “a test case” for similar actions in other American cities, Bass continued, but she and other local leaders won’t be intimidated by “the unwarranted and cruel actions of this administration.”
“L.A. will stand strong, and we will stand together,” she said. “We are a city of diversity, of labor, of business, of faith, of community, of creativity, of success. We are a proud American city, and we will stand united.”
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