Posted on 07/29/2025 5:39:54 PM PDT by simpson96
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. (snip)
Still, Los Angeles remains in an uneasy state of high alert, anxious about the next salvo that many feel will inevitably come from a president who often fixates on California.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
“How Trump’s ICE raids knocked Los Angeles to its knees”
Winning!
Holy crap, she does!
Yikes.
Los Angeles is offering head to ICE agents? I wouldn’t stick my “little friend” in her mouth.
Sure it’s a lot less traffic... the freeways and the surface streets.
That’s a MAN, baby!!
They can always return to their respective countries of origin, where they hold citizenship and need not fear "certain cars".
“Seven Point Six Two Millimeter ...”
say it with me lefties
no one is above the law
AMF! todos
that is her sexy look
yikes
Nice - Immigration crackdown, not illegal crackdown.
LOL. Twins.
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