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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass lashed out Thursday against federal authorities, calling them a source of “disorder” in the city after agents were spotted patrolling outside a museum where California Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a press conference to address the state’s plan to redraw congressional maps.
Bass showed up in the city’s Little Tokyo neighborhood, where U.S. Border Patrol agents were present outside the event at the Japanese American National Museum and made at least one arrest.
“Donald Trump, you think it’s coincidental? Donald Trump and his minions, Tom Homan, tough guy, decided coincidentally or not, that this was a location to advance ICE arrests,” Newsom said about the operations outside the press conference. “I think it’s pretty sick and pathetic.”
LA MAYOR BASS PROVIDES CASH PAYMENTS TO ILLEGALS, ISSUES ORDER TO THWART IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has been critical of President Trump’s immigration agenda in recent months. On Thursday, she further criticized the administration after federal agents were outside a venue where California Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a press conference. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)
Bass, who has harshly criticized the Trump administration for conducting raids to arrest illegal immigrants in the city, showed up and questioned the timing of the operation.
“There is no way this was a coincidence. This was widely publicized that the governor and many of our other elected officials were having a press conference here to talk about redistricting, and they decided they were going to come and thumb their nose in front of the governor’s face,” a charged-up Bass said, calling it a “provacative act.”
“They’re talking about disorder in Los Angeles, and they are the source of the disorder,” she added. “This is an administration, this is a Customs and Border Patrol that has gone amok.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The White House cited sweeps in California where migrant children were rescued, as well as the arrests of migrants with criminal records.
“If Karen Bass and Gavin Newscum want to find the source of California’s dysfunction, they should look in the mirror,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital. “Despite Bass’s and Newscum’s best efforts to protect dangerous criminal illegal aliens, the Trump…
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