US EditionMayor 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
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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Yesterday I was sitting on my fat ass watching the internet, as is my job, when the videos started flying, again, from Los Angeles. ICE or Border Patrol or the National Guard (all three?) were doing some performative brownshirt bullshit, driving their horses on a “sweep” (for what?) through MacArthur Park, protected by trucks with machine guns bolted on top. At the park were citizens, immigrants, children at a city-run summer camp, and doctors f…
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Immigration agents moved through MacArthur Park on Monday, wearing masks and camouflage and wielding assault rifles. Agents on horseback trotted in a line across the soccer field. On Wilshire Blvd., armored vehicles – painted tan to blend into desert battlefields – rolled slowly past the 720 Metro Rapid bus. No one was detained. Still, it was an astonishing show of force from the Trump administration, following a month of escalated ICE raids and…
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