The ICE raids have been ongoing all over America ever since President Trump took over, and the result has been huge numbers of arrests and detentions of criminal illegal aliens even as the leftist rulers of sanctuary cities and sanctuary states go utterly berserk in total temper tantrums about ICE enforcing American immigration law.
Recently, that has meant the governor of Maine totally lost it when ICE blitzed into that northern state in a near-totally unsuspected operation that netted big arrest numbers, and that Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Governor Tim Walz have been in perpetual meltdown mode over ICE’s hugely successful Operation Midway Blitz in Minnesota.
But the sort of unsuspected raid and total freakout cycle had been going on long before those early 2026 meltdowns, with one of the funniest and best examples occurring when federal immigration agents raided an unsuspecting park in Los Angeles known to be a gang hideout, and the sanctuary city mayor went absolutely ballistic over the raid.
That very entertaining and very eye-opening incident occurred back in early July of 2025, when federal agents and members of the National Guard launched a surprise sweep into Los Angeles’s MacArthur Park. The park sits in an area known for having not just a large immigrant population, but also a heavy MS-13 influence, making it the perfect sort of target for a hugely justified operation.
Thus, a terrific surge of agents, such as horseback-mounted Border Patrol agents, surged into the park without warning as law enforcement and federal agents surrounding the area, closing the net on the suspected MS-13 gangsters and other illegal aliens. As could be expected, Mayor Bass went totally ballistic over the news.
Posting a clip of the raid on X, she referred to a raid targeting MS-13 as “outrageous,” snapping, “This is footage from today in MacArthur Park. Minutes before, there were more than 20 kids playing — then, the MILITARY comes through. The SECOND I heard about this, I went to the park to speak to the person in charge to tell them it needed to end NOW. Absolutely outrageous.”
Firing back at her, conservatives lit up her comments, saying things like “WHY do you want criminal illegal aliens roaming a park where kids are playing? I know you’re trying to dunk here but with each passing post, you only make OUR POINT. Resign” and “Well that’s a f*cking lie. MacArthur Park is a gang infested sh*thole.” Watch the raid here:
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But Mayor Bass wasn’t done with the meltdown. In fact, speaking to the media and Border Patrol officers at the scene, the sanctuary city mayor insisted, “They need to leave, and they need to leave right now. They need to leave because this is unacceptable!” Adding to that, she said, “There is no plan other than fear, chaos, and politics. Home Depot one day, a car wash the next, armed vehicles and what looked like mounted military units in a park the next day.”
Continuing with the meltdown, she ignored the MS-13 connection in the park, saying, “What happened to the criminals, the drug dealers, the violent individuals? Who were in the park today were children. It was their summer day camp. Those kids now have no activities. They were ushered inside so that they didn’t get exposed to the troops that were walking in formation across their playground area.”
Watch her here: