Tuberville calls for LA mayor to be ‘locked up’: DHS official says Karen Bass’ arrest is ‘on the table’
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville has called for Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to be arrested, a move which a Department of Homeland Security officials says is “on the table.”
On Monday, federal immigration agents along with California National Guard troops arrived at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles and began marching through the park as children attending a summer camp played.
Federal officials claim the militarized personnel were conducting an immigration raid in the area but local officials condemned the operation as a show of force and intimidation tactic aimed at the immigrant population in the area.
Bass responded to the park and a post on X shows her talking on the phone with Gregory Bovino, a Customs and Border Protection chief in Southern California, according to The New York Times.
Bovino assures her that he would get the federal agents out of the park.
Bass then tells media that the agents, “need to leave because this is unacceptable.”
No one was arrested during the show of force.
Tuberville made a post on X saying to “Lock her up” in reference to the video of Bass calling for the federal immigration agents to leave MacArthur Park.
Last month Tuberville also called for California Governor Gavin Newsom to be arrested after protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids erupted in Los Angeles.
But during an interview with Fox News Monday night, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, said that arresting Bass was, “on the table,” if she attempted to intervene in immigration raids.
The raids are likely to increase as Bovino stated on X, “We may well go back to MacArthur Park or other places in and around Los Angeles.”
Los Angeles is home to an abundant immigrant population and, according to a 2020 study, has about 900,000 undocumented immigrants that have lived in the country for at least 10 years.
President Donald Trump’s marquee bill that recently passed dubbed, The One Big Beautiful Bill, allocates over $170 billion to immigration and border enforcement funding.
The unprecedented funding has been criticized by critics and immigration advocates as harmful and will only serve to expedite the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda while tearing families apart.
“What I saw in [MacArthur Park] today looked like a city under siege, under armed occupation,” Bass told reporters Monday. “It’s the way a city looks before a coup.”
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