Live Updates: Trump administration ICE raids have created fear and unrest, L.A. mayor says

Before there were raging protests in Los Angeles, there were immigration raids.

L.A Mayor Karen Bass unveils the 2024-25 fiscal budget at City Hall. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Bass said at a news conference that the raids didn't increase peace and decrease crime but that they did push a wave of fear through a county where 1 in 3 are foreign-born.

Federal agents amassed at three locations Friday to arrest people believed to be in the country illegally, and when they did, L.A.'s sizable pro-immigrant organizations and labor groups rallied and protested.

"What we're seeing in Los Angeles is chaos that is provoked by the administration," Bass said, referring to Trump.

She continued: "When you raid Home Depot and workplaces, when you tear parents and children apart and when you run armored caravans through our streets, you cause fear and you cause panic."

Trump administration ICE raids have created fear and unrest, L.A. mayor says, continued

Protesters gathered outside a Home Depot in Paramount yesterday as federal agents staged at offices nearby, but the retailer and its parking lot weren't the subjects of a raid, officials said.

Bass also faulted the Trump administration for arresting everyday migrants when it said the focus of deportation efforts would be violent criminals.

"In the beginning, the administration said they were just looking for dangerous felons, violent people," she said. "It's hard to say that that's what they found."

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