Posted on 05/05/2026 9:31:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
One of the tricks Democrats have tried to pull since the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration began has been to implement directives, executive orders, and even pass legislation at the state level to try to thwart immigration enforcement agents from doing their jobs.
Back in February, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) signed Executive Directive 17 (ED-17), which was designed to do just that. Among other things, the directive mandated "that City property is not [to be] utilized by federal immigration agents for staging areas, processing locations, or bases of operation." It also mandated signs to be posted that read "This property is owned or controlled by the City of Los Angeles. It may only be used for its intended City purpose and not used for immigration enforcement as a staging area, processing location, or operations base."
It also called for "physical barriers such as locked gates and doors [to be] used to limit access to City-owned or controlled parking lots, vacant lots, or garages, and non-public portions of City facilities."
According to local reports, the signs mandated by ED-17 began cropping up this week around L.A., a project that the Fox 11 LA news station estimated cost around $250,000 taxpayer dollars:
More than 450 signs have been installed at parks, libraries, parking lots and transit hubs, including MacArthur Park, Lafayette Park and the Los Angeles Zoo. The signs state that city property is not to be used for immigration enforcement activities, including as staging areas, processing sites or operational bases.
"I will not stand by while federal agents use our neighborhoods as staging grounds for fear and intimidation," Bass said in a statement to FOX 11. "In Los Angeles, we are setting clear boundaries: city property will not be used to carry out these raids."
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli responded accordingly, noting that the signs "have no legal weight" and that federal immigration agents would go where they needed to in order to enforce federal immigration laws:
"I just think this whole thing is silly. The signs have no legal weight, force or effect on anything the federal government does," said Bill Essayli. "Federal agents will go anywhere they need to go to enforce federal law, including city property."
When asked directly whether the signs would stop federal immigration enforcement, Essayli responded, "No. Not at all. They’re null and void. They mean nothing to us."
Watch:
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Just as a reminder, MacArthur Park in L.A. was the scene of a massive immigration enforcement operation last summer, which infuriated Bass, who arrived on the scene and demanded agents leave "right now!" She and other California Democrats, including then-Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-14) infamously tried to gaslight people on the supposedly "family-friendly park."
Except the receipts said otherwise:
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Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin also noted at the time that "a massive federal immigration enforcement operation is underway in the MacArthur Park area of the sanctuary city of Los Angeles, an area with heavy MS-13 influence."
Months later, we learned that Bass had "greenlighted a multi-million dollar project to clean up the city’s drug-filled MacArthur Park — mere months after the Democrat berated immigration officers who tried to do the same thing in the troubled greenspace."
What was the stated rationale for Bass' clean-up project? “Ongoing public safety and quality of life challenges."
It's amazing how President Donald Trump taking bold action on issues that have persistently plagued Democrat-run cities and states will inevitably prompt those same Democrats to take action themselves (on a much smaller scale, of course) once the smoke and dust have cleared - while trying to take credit for ideas initiated by Trump that prompted their fauxrage to begin with.
This is something we saw, for instance, when Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) ordered the state police to help combat crime in blue cities (the same ones we were reliably told didn't have a crime problem) in August 2025 after Trump put him on full blast over crime issues in the Golden State.
Whatever the case may be, while Bass' executive directive and the signs put up from it might make her feel like she's Done Something™ to combat the feds, the reality of the matter, as Essayli, is that it was a meaningless action that will have no impact whatsoever on immigration enforcement agents doing what Bass and other Democrat officials in the city have consistently failed to do: protect its residents from criminal illegal aliens.
Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do everything they can to interfere with and threaten ICE agents enforcing our immigration laws.
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The Supremacy Clause is found in Article VI, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution, establishing that the Constitution, federal laws, and treaties are the supreme law of the land, overriding any conflicting state laws or constitutions.
Smackdown? How about arresting this retarded incompetent POS communist?
Add: Lesbian.............
If they can nab 1,000 in the Tampa area in only four months, imagine how many there are in the greater LA area! Hundreds of times more than Tampa, I'm sure. Bass and her ilk love their child sex offenders.
karen’s commie history is too well known
that is why she did not make the cut for vp
bttt
If The Stupid Party had any guts, all these sanctuary city democrats would be in JAIL for treason, murder, rape, arson, etc. since they are thwarting US law.
Now ICE has plenty of parking areas annotated by the signs. Just start using those areas to stage in and get on with our business. Dare the city, county and state to interfere.
I wonder if this whore has ever been handcuffed by a Federal agent.
No NICE in LA!
I'm not a Republican nor a Democrat and this is not a political channel.
But I am enjoying the amazing creativity of the LA mayor's race campaign ads.
They are off the charts.
Is this the future of politcal campaigns? (and Hollywood)? pic.twitter.com/gBItRpKtLW— Robert Lufkin MD (@robertlufkinmd) May 5, 2026
I like Spencer. I watched his extended interview with Joe Rogan. He’s got a lot of motivation to do the right thing, and has a bent to be as a-political as possible.
I’d love to see him get in there in L.A. and have Sheriff Bianco have his back up at the Statehouse.
Bianco asserted he’s getting rid of CARB (bye-bye smog checks, et. al) and wants to rid the vehicle registration process of envirowhackist “fees” that massively punish anyone who buys a scary car. I was speaking with one of my friend’s neighbors who’s a big MoPar guy and has the newer 1000+HP Dodge Demon. His “fees” are in the THOUSANDS — for just ONE CAR — strictly because it’s high performance.
Bianco wants to eliminate ALL that crap, scrap the onerous smog check process that’s been outmoded for 40 years, and make vehicle registration a straight $25 proposition, no matter what the vehicle is.
Those ideas lit up the public square so brightly that fellow Republican, Steve Hilton, has begun to echo them, as have a few of the Democrat contenders.
Bianco is full-throated on that; he’s 100% gonna do it.
I have a gut feeling Hilton will be about 50/50 as to whether he would or wouldn’t.
I doubt any of the Democrats will do more than talk it up as a vote getting strategy; their follow through will be ZERO.
Hoping LA/CA can elect these good guys and turn the sinking ship back to sanity’s shore 🙏🏻
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