LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration blasted LA Mayor Karen Bass over her call for ICE to leave town, arguing that her rhetoric — and the word from other Dems — is “doing the bidding of criminal illegal aliens.”
“Anyone pointing the finger at law enforcement officers instead of the criminals is simply doing the bidding of criminal illegal aliens,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told The Post.
Bass said she wanted ICE out of the city following an ICE raid in LA’s Fashion District Thursday morning.
The Fashion District — a sprawling 107-block hub for the West Coast apparel and textile industries downtown — was among the first targets of the Trump administration when raids began in June 2025.
“They hit the Fashion District again — the Fashion District that hasn’t recovered from the raids that happened several months ago,” Bass said. “The escalation from the White House has become more and more frightening. The idea that you would terrorize the American public and that Angelenos still have to live in fear, never knowing when and where ICE is going to show up.”
Bass also invoked the killing of Renee Nicole Good and took aim at the president.
“This show of force by ICE is particularly troubling given the recent ICE escalation and violence in American cities, including the fatal shootings of Keith Porter Jr. by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year’s Eve here in Los Angeles and Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis,” Bass said. “Equally troubling are the president’s threats of invoking the Insurrection Act, which would bring military intervention into our cities.”
The White House said that because of rhetoric from officials like Bass, ICE officers are now facing a 1,300% increase in assaults due to what it called “dangerous, untrue smears from elected Democrats.”
“ICE officers act heroically to enforce the law and protect American communities with the utmost professionalism,” Jackson said.
