LA mayor: Trump administration lawsuit ‘an attempt to overturn the will of the city’
- Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass held a press conference on July 1, 2025, condemning the Trump administration's lawsuit against the city as an assault.
- The lawsuit followed federal immigration raids starting in early June that triggered protests and heightened tensions across Los Angeles and elsewhere.
- Bass criticized the raids for indiscriminately detaining people, causing fear in immigrant communities, and disrupting daily life and local economy.
- California led a coalition of 20 states filing a federal suit over unauthorized Medicaid data sharing with immigration enforcement, described by AG Bonta as granting “unfettered access.”
- The ongoing conflict implies continuing legal and political battles over sanctuary policies, immigration enforcement, and data privacy with significant community and economic impacts.
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Hawaii joins lawsuit against Trump over Medicaid data shared with ICE | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
SACRAMENTO, Calif. >> California today led a coalition of states, including Hawaii, in filing a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration over its alleged sharing of Medicaid recipients’ health data with immigration enforcement agencies, Attorney General Rob Bonta said.
July 1, 2025 – Los Angeles – EFE. Los Angeles Mayor, Karen Bass, denounced that the lawsuit filed by Donald Trump’s government against the city’s migration policies constitutes a “frontal attack” and said that she will not allow her administration to be intimidated. During a press conference, she reaffirmed her commitment to protect all residents of the city from the actions she described as cruel and unjustified by the federal government. Bass …


LA’s Mayor Bass defends ‘sanctuary’ policies against ‘all-out assault’ by Trump Administration
Mayor Karen Bass said immigration detentions and a new federal lawsuit were the beginning of “an all out assault on Los Angeles.” L.A. is the "test case," she said. And "we're going to pass the test.”
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