Let’s just publicly announce when and where ICE intends to arrest illegal criminals. On Saturday, July 19. 2025 Politico ran an article headined, “‘It’s like a game of Whac-A-Mole’: How Trump’s ICE raids knocked Los Angeles to its knees
For the second time in six months, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is the face of a city under siege.”
LOS ANGELES — In the era of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, even the simple act of buying pan dulce can set nerves on edge. So it was when Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stopped by an East LA bakery one morning only to find the doors shut and the people inside conspicuously ignoring her knocks on the window.
It wasn’t until she pressed the mayoral seal printed on her jacket against the glass that the owners welcomed her in.
She attributed their squeamishness to her official car, a hulking SUV with tinted windows — to many Angelenos, a symbol of surprise raids and menace.
“It makes me feel sad that now, in the city, people are afraid of certain cars,” Bass said in an interview Friday at El Chapulín, a Oaxacan restaurant in Pico-Union, a heavily Latino neighborhood in Los Angeles.
For the second time in just six months, Bass is the face of a city under siege. Her flat-footed response to the devastating January wildfires fed into a sense that Los Angeles was at the mercy of a hostile Mother Nature. Now, the nation’s second-largest city is bracing against a different antagonist: the federal government.
The combustible early stages of Trump’s immigration dragnet — the mobilization of federal forces, the raucous protests that led to burning Waymos and nights with downtown under curfew — has subsided. Roughly half of the National Guard, summoned by the president to Los Angeles over the objection of Gov. Gavin Newsom, has begun demobilizing. A federal judge temporarily blocked Immigrations and Customs Enforcement from using “roving patrols” to arrest people without reasonable suspicion they are in the country illegally.
“Sure, lets give these illegal criminals a fighting chance to escape justice like some in America have for decades.” said Thomas Robb, the National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, based centrally in Harrison, Arkansas. “It amazes me some of the stupidity that comes from Leftists mouths, and even more so any Mainstream Media newsource desperate enough for attention to report the stupidity. There are plenty of arrests of American citizens that law enforcement uses the element of surprise to arrest a criminal that has eluded them for some time. For instance, a drug dealer. If the dealer keeps moving around to avoid arrest, when the police get a tip where the dealer may be, they use the element of surprise. When the dealer is taken off the streets, people give accolades to the police department. ICE is law enforcement. They’re immigration officers whos job it is to arrest illegal immigrants. These people are criminal to the core. The worst of the worst. Everyday I hear of a illegal immigrant that has committed a horrendous crime. Some have eluded ICE for decades, yet when the element of surprise is used to catch them, all of the sudden it causes riots. And lets face it, Democrats like violence enough that they financially support radical leftist organizations to commit that violence for them. I’ve seen stories of radical judges harboring these illegal criminals, and when you see that happening, I’d say there’s nothing wrong at all with the tactics ICE uses to catch them. It’s time to clean America up, and rid our streets of these invaders. Citizens shouldn’t have to live in fear of taking their garbage to the curb. And yes, it is that bad.”
