Anti-ICE riots force HUD offices to close weeks after 'Squad' Dem, Maxine Waters said Trump would close them

Three Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) tract offices successful Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York City person temporarily closed their doors successful the look of unit stemming from anti-ICE riots and protests, HUD confirmed to Fox News Digital connected Tuesday. 

The impermanent closures owed to the unit travel conscionable weeks aft Democrats specified arsenic California Rep. Maxine Waters and Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib claimed HUD tract offices would permanently adjacent owed to Department of Government Efficiency efforts, with Waters saying specified closures would impact "families and communities crossed the state who trust connected HUD for lodging assistance, assemblage and economical improvement projects." 

HUD Secretary Scott Turner exclusively told Fox News Digital connected Tuesday that liberals' claims successful caller weeks that HUD would shutter tract offices were "fake news" portion lambasting Democrats for "encouraging riots" that person caused the 3 offices to temporarily shutter. 

"The near and bequest media dispersed fake quality implicit mendacious reports that HUD is closing tract offices," Turner told Fox News Digital Tuesday. "Now they’re encouraging riots that person really forced astatine slightest 3 tract offices to temporarily close."

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"Democrat-run bluish states similar California are suffering from failed leadership, resulting successful grounds homelessness, unchecked amerciable alien transgression and, arsenic we’re seeing present connected afloat display, pandemonium, chaos and destruction," helium added. "The American radical merit better. HUD volition proceed to service communities successful the look of this reckless unit portion prioritizing information and security."

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Now, 3 tract offices are temporarily closed arsenic riots and protests spiral successful Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York City. Los Angeles has seen wide riots since Friday, erstwhile national instrumentality enforcement officials converged connected the metropolis to behaviour migration raids arsenic portion of President Donald Trump's run vow to deport the millions of amerciable immigrants who crossed the borderline nether the Biden administration.

Other anti-ICE protests person breached retired successful New York City and San Francisco since the L.A. riots began, which person led to dozens of arrests. 

HUD Secretary Scott Turner (Getty Images)

Fox News Digital obtained much than a twelve images showing graffiti strewn crossed a national gathering successful downtown L.A., which is location to a HUD tract office. HUD's outer bureau is located conscionable blocks from City Hall, wherever immoderate of the convulsive riots person unfolded.

Media outlets earlier successful 2025 ran headlines that the Trump medication had plans to shutter dozens of HUD tract offices crossed the country, which was reported arsenic a imaginable usurpation of national instrumentality arsenic HUD indispensable beryllium represented successful each state. Turner said connected X connected Tuesday that his section "hasn’t closed a azygous tract office." 

Waters led a radical of Democrat lawmakers and anti-DOGE protesters successful March successful an effort to participate HUD office and hand-deliver a protestation missive to Turner that demanded "answers connected efforts to decimate federal lodging programs."

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., precocious said that HUD would adjacent its tract offices. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Waters, and a fistful of different House Democrats, were permitted to participate HUD headquarters, portion the California Democrat warned they would "stay each night" until they met with Turner, Breitbart News exclusively reported successful March. HUD staffers informed the radical they would present the missive to Turner, portion Waters protested for a gathering with the HUD secretary.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., helped hand-deliver a protestation missive to HUD. (J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press)

Tlaib besides attempted to instrumentality portion successful the gaggle of lawmakers demanding to conscionable with Turner, but was seen stopped astatine HUD's entranceway successful video footage. Tlaib was heard shouting,"You don’t springiness a sh--!" astatine HUD employees arsenic the radical of lawmakers and DOGE protesters yet near the gathering without gathering with Turner. 

A period aft the HUD trip, Waters sent a missive successful April to the Government Accountability Office's comptroller and HUD's acting inspector wide calling for an probe into allegations "the Administration plans to unopen down section tract offices and terminate lodging bureau staff."

"I americium acrophobic astir what effects this volition person connected families and communities crossed the state who trust connected HUD for lodging assistance, assemblage and economical improvement projects, arsenic good arsenic enforcement of national just lodging and civilian rights laws," Waters wrote successful the letter.

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"Employees crossed astir 54 tract offices person localized expertise and enactment successful communities to transportation retired face-to-face method assistance, supply timely guidance to section grantees and officials to assistance velocity up task timelines, and negociate oversight and enforcement of national statutes successful each region," she continued. "The Trump Administration’s connection to adjacent 34 tract offices would severely disrupt national lodging programs, stall section improvement projects, and endanger the jobs of astir 360 full-time employees." 

Burned-out Waymo cars enactment a thoroughfare successful downtown Los Angeles connected June 9, 2025. Rioters acceptable the vehicles ablaze the erstwhile night. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

Fox News Digital reached retired to Waters' and Tlaib's respective offices inquiring whether they are inactive acrophobic astir HUD bureau closures owed to unit successful the left-wing cities, but did not instantly person responses. 

Riots broke retired successful L.A. connected Friday evening aft national instrumentality enforcement officials converged connected the metropolis to transportation retired migration raids. Local leaders specified arsenic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom rapidly denounced the raids successful nationalist statements portion offering words of enactment for amerciable immigrants successful the state.

Protests implicit the raids soon devolved into unit arsenic rioters targeted national instrumentality enforcement officials, including launching rocks astatine officials, with videos showing radical looting section stores, mounting cars connected occurrence and taking implicit a freeway. 

A pistillate waves a Mexican emblem during a protestation successful Paramount, Calif., connected June 7, 2025. (Eric Thayer/Associated Press)

Trump announced connected Saturday that helium was deploying 2,000 National Guard members to assistance quell the violence, and the medication deployed hundreds of Marines to respond to anti-immigration chaos connected Monday evening arsenic the unit continued. 

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"If I didn’t ‘SEND IN THE TROOPS’ to Los Angeles the past 3 nights, that erstwhile beauteous and large City would beryllium burning to the crushed close now," Trump posted to Truth Social connected Tuesday morning.