In response to recent incidents involving federal immigration enforcement, Mayor Karen Bass has signed a new executive directive

The raid resulted in little more than an empty park and increased tensions between the federal government and Los Angeles’s mayor.

Karen Bass didn’t seem the least bit worried that a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson left open the possibility that the Los Angeles mayor would be arrested for showing up during a recent ICE sweep at MacArthur Park. Armed federal agents in ...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass arrives at MacArthur Park, where federal agents were staging, Monday, July 7, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Federal troops paraded through MacArthur Park on Monday in an astonishing show of force. Mayor Karen Bass says LA is a testing site for a national project.

Karen Bass might find it politically expedient with the far-left to rail against ICE, but in doing so she ignores the crime-ridden calamity of Los Angeles.

A large federal enforcement sweep stalled children’s summer camp at MacArthur Park without any arrests. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and city council members say this display of force has raised urgent questions about how immigration enforcement affects communities—and they’re calling on cities nationwide to wake up,