LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration blasted LA Mayor Karen Bass over her name for ICE to go away city, arguing that her rhetoric — and the phrase from different Dems — is “doing the bidding of prison unlawful aliens.”
“Anybody pointing the finger at regulation enforcement officers as a substitute of the criminals is solely doing the bidding of prison unlawful aliens,” White Home spokeswoman Abigail Jackson advised The Submit.
Bass mentioned she needed ICE out of town following an ICE raid in LA’s Style District Thursday morning.
The Style District — a sprawling 107-block hub for the West Coast attire and textile industries downtown — was among the many first targets of the Trump administration when raids started in June 2025.
“They hit the Style District once more — the Style District that hasn’t recovered from the raids that occurred a number of months in the past,” Bass mentioned. “The escalation from the White Home has change into an increasing number of horrifying. The concept you’d terrorize the American public and that Angelenos nonetheless need to reside in concern, by no means realizing when and the place ICE goes to point out up.”
Bass additionally invoked the killing of Renee Nicole Good and took goal on the president.
“This present of drive by ICE is especially troubling given the latest ICE escalation and violence in American cities, together with the deadly shootings of Keith Porter Jr. by an off-duty ICE agent on New 12 months’s Eve right here in Los Angeles and Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis,” Bass mentioned. “Equally troubling are the president’s threats of invoking the Riot Act, which might deliver navy intervention into our cities.”
The White Home mentioned that due to rhetoric from officers like Bass, ICE officers at the moment are going through a 1,300% improve in assaults because of what it referred to as “harmful, unfaithful smears from elected Democrats.”
“ICE officers act heroically to implement the regulation and shield American communities with the utmost professionalism,” Jackson mentioned.
