Social media, Trump admin erupts over LA mayor's reaction to ICE raids: 'You're a criminal too'

Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass faced backlash connected societal media Friday, including from members of the Trump administration, for pushing backmost connected Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids targeting amerciable immigrants successful her city. 

"This morning, we received reports of national migration enforcement actions successful aggregate locations successful Los Angeles," Bass said successful a connection connected Friday. 

"As Mayor of a arrogant metropolis of immigrants, who lend to our metropolis successful truthful galore ways, I americium profoundly angered by what has taken place. These tactics sow panic successful our communities and disrupt basal principles of information successful our city. My Office is successful adjacent coordination with migrant rights assemblage organizations. We volition not basal for this."

The mayor’s statement, which garnered implicit 2 cardinal impressions connected X, drew contiguous pushback from conservatives, with galore pointing retired criticisms of her leadership, preparedness, and effect to the devastating wildfires successful Los Angeles earlier this twelvemonth that killed 30 people. 

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LA Mayor Karen Bass was blasted connected societal media for her absorption to ICE raids successful her city. (Getty/AP)

"You person nary accidental successful this astatine all," White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller posted connected X. "Federal instrumentality is ultimate and national instrumentality volition beryllium enforced."

"It’s astonishing the fig of elected officials who don’t grasp the basics of federalism, oregon national sovereignty implicit migration issues, oregon the First Amendment," Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights astatine the U.S. Department of Justice Harmeet Dhillon posted connected X. 

"They’re Illegals," Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka posted connected X. "Not ‘immigrants.’ One conscionable tried to pain Americans live successful Boulder. If you’re aiding and abetting them you’re a transgression too. Are you acceptable to beryllium treated arsenic a criminal? Because we are acceptable to dainty you arsenic 1 if you perpetrate a crime."

"Can’t get permits for radical to rebuild their homes aft a wildfire, but focused similar a laser beam connected stopping migration enforcement," Red State writer Bonchie posted connected X. 

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Mayor Karen Bass has fielded pugnacious questions connected Los Angeles' effect to the wildfires during January property conferences.  (Drew A. Kelley/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram/FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

"Communist sympathizer Karen Bass takes the broadside of amerciable alien criminals vs. American citizens," blimpish communicator Steve Guest posted connected X. "To think, she was astir Biden’s VP pick."

"LA Mayor Karen Bass promises to support illegals successful her city," blimpish influencer relationship LibsofTikTok posted connected X. "Obstructing oregon impeding ICE operations is simply a crime."

"If lone Karen Bass fought against the Los Angeles fires similar she fights for amerciable aliens," GOP Rep. Darrell Issa posted connected X. 

The Associated Press reported that migration advocates confirmed astatine slightest 45 radical had been arrested crossed 7 locations. The locations included 2 Home Depot stores, a store successful the manner territory and a doughnut shop, according to Angelica Salas, the enforcement manager of the Coalition of Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), who spoke astatine an day quality league to denounce the actions.

Videos of the operations taken by bystanders and TV quality crews showed radical being escorted crossed a Home Depot parking batch by national agents. The videos besides captured clashes betwixt protesters and national agents astatine detention sites.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent. (Getty Images)

As the protests grew connected Friday evening, and instrumentality enforcement successful riot cogwheel had to beryllium brought successful to calm the crowds, Bass drew adjacent much disapproval online from users accusing her of stirring up protesters.

"Karen Bass whipped each of this up," Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions of United States Ric Grenell posted connected X. "She attacked the regularisation of law. She undermined democracy. The @MayorOfLA is creating chaos successful LA."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the mayor's bureau for comment.

Adding to the controversy, the Los Angeles Police Department issued a connection that it was not getting progressive with deportations oregon migration enforcement.

"Today the LAPD became alert that national instrumentality enforcement agencies conducted activities successful the City of Los Angeles. I’m alert that these actions origin anxiousness for galore Angelenos, truthful I privation to marque it clear: the LAPD is not progressive successful civilian migration enforcement," LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said successful a connection posted connected X.

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, left, and her disaster-recovery czar Steve Soboroff, right, get astatine a property league astatine Palisades Recreation Center connected Monday, Jan. 27, 2025 successful Pacific Palisades, CA.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

"While the LAPD volition proceed to person a disposable beingness successful each our communities to guarantee nationalist safety, we volition not assistance oregon enactment successful immoderate benignant of wide deportations, nor volition the LAPD effort to find an individual’s migration status."

That presumption drew disapproval connected societal media, including from Assistant Secretary Dept. of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin. 

"Assaulting ICE enforcement officers, slashing tires, defacing buildings," she posted. "800 protestors person surrounded and breached the archetypal furniture of a national instrumentality enforcement gathering successful LA. @LAPD
has not responded. This unit against  @ICEgov indispensable stop."

Guest added successful different post: "The information the LAPD has not responded is simply a MAJOR scandal. As this unit against national instrumentality enforcement rages, Democrat LA Mayor Karen Bass has truthful acold refused to reconstruct instrumentality and order. She should measurement up oregon measurement aside—LA deserves a person who defends the regularisation of law."

Fox News Digital’s Greg Wehner contributed to this report