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Mayor Bass Forces Abrupt End to MacArthur Park Immigration Raid

LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, JUL 7 – Mayor Karen Bass confronted federal agents during a large immigration raid targeting MS-13 gang areas, with no arrests made and over 100 agents involved, sparking protests and community backlash.

  • On July 7, 2025, about 100 federal immigration officers, backed by military vehicles, carried out an enforcement operation near the park located in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles during a children’s summer day camp.
  • This operation followed a month-long increase in federal immigration raids under the Trump administration’s push to deport millions of undocumented immigrants nationwide.
  • Mayor Karen Bass condemned the raid as outrageous and un-American, calling it a political agenda designed to instill fear, while activists and local officials protested the militarized presence in immigrant neighborhoods.
  • Bass demanded immediate action, insisting that those involved must leave at once due to the situation being intolerable. Meanwhile, Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino stated that he does not answer to Bass and cautioned that such operations are likely to become a regular occurrence moving forward.
  • Following Bass’s intervention and her phone call with Bovino, federal agents exited the park without making arrests, but protests and calls for an end to such raids continue across Los Angeles.
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Residents still shaken a day after federal authorities march through Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park

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Residents still shaken a day after federal authorities march through Los Angeles' MacArthur Park

Hector Velasquez was playing cards with friends at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles early Monday when a young man with a megaphone walked through announcing federal agents were on their way. Another man drove past in a car, shouting out the window, “Immigration is coming!”The people in Velasquez's group who did not have legal status scattered. Others with U.S. citizenship — like Velasquez — lingered to see what would happen. Two hours later, federa…

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Independent Sentinel broke the news in on Sunday, July 6, 2025.
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