Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass recently held a press conference in which she issued a warning that she, along with the city’s residents, were fully prepared and willing to oppose federal immigration enforcement officers and operations if the Trump administration attempts to enforce the law and deport illegal aliens during the World Cup.
Bass, who is currently facing a significant threat to her mayoral re-election campaign from Republican Spencer Pratt, a former reality television star, promised she would support Los Angeles residents regardless of who they might be or why they are in Los Angeles. “Our community resisted before, and our community will resist again, regardless of the World Cup,” Bass said during the press conference.
“And I will be there,” Bass continued, “Standing in support of Angelenos, regardless of who they are, why they’re here, when they came here. It doesn’t matter to me. You’re an Angeleno.” The mayor’s comment struck a raw nerve with many conservatives, including one user on social media platform X who wrote, “Because she is a communist who can’t stand our Constitution. I think her residents can’t stand her for burning down part of the city.”
Pratt, her biggest rival and challenger for the mayoral seat, previously called out Bass in a post published on X for her deep and long-term connection to the communist regime in Cuba, pointing out that she has even traveled to the communist island to train with actual communists during her younger years. The race between Pratt and Bass has turned into much more of a fight than originally anticipated as the Republican continues to climb the polls ahead of the primary.
As it stands now, Pratt has a serious chance of becoming the next mayor and unseat a Democrat from the office for the first time in many, many years. In his post, Pratt cited an old article published by the Los Angeles Times that exposed Bass’s ties to Cuban communists and alleges that she traveled to the island to learn guerrilla warfare as part of a radical left-wing movement in the 1970s, The American Tribune previously reported.
The section of the article Pratt highlighted said, “In those documents, intelligence officers accused one plaintiff of making death threats against police officers, accused another of fostering racial strife and contended that a third plaintiff traveled to Cuba to learn guerrilla warfare.” The section went on to say, “Plaintiff Karen Bass, according to a 1973 intelligence document provided to The Times, ‘traveled to Cuba with the 6th Contingent of the Venceremos Brigade.”
“The brigade trains revolutionary-prone Americans in terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare while claiming to harvest sugar cane,’” the article continued. It also stated that Bass served as a leader in the communist group and brought communist propaganda back with her to the United States. Users on X expressed their thoughts on Bass’s latest comments, with many siding against her.
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“Why resist enforcing existing laws?” one individual replied to a clip of Bass shared on the platform. “Karen Bass almost burned LA down and now she’s playing tough on immigration. Replace her with Pratt. LA deserves better than a mayor who was on vacation while the city was on fire,” another individual said. A third commenter said, “You stand for the illegals, homelessness, drugs addicted mentally unstable people, you do not stand for the hardworking people of California.”
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