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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass repeatedly replied whether all illegal immigrants should be allowed to live in the city city.
In an interview with ABC’s “This Week”, Bass criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to fed 4,000 National Guard soldiers and deployed about 700 marines in Los Angeles amidst anti -immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) riots and protests. The Democratic Mayor was questioned by ABC host Martha Ramatz that they think they should be deported – whether it should only be convicted to guilty guilty of crimes – Los Angeles has about one million “unintended stories”.
“What should happen to those people?” Raddatz asked.
“I should only say that, because we are a city of immigrants, we have the entire area of our economy that depend on immigrants. “And this is not just exile, there is a fear that when raids are done, when people are taken away from the road. And I know you know that even those who are legally here, even those who are American citizens have been detained.”
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Mayor Karen Bass speaks on June 10, 2025, sending National Guard soldiers to the city against the Trump administration in Los Angles. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
“So should they not be deported?” Raddatz pressed.
Bass replied, “I don’t think so. I think they should live.”
The ABC host intervened, given that the Mayor was discussing “one million unspecified people”.
“No, let me tell you, I think what we think we need to improve extensive immigration. I served in Congress for 12 years,” Bass said.
Raddatz again disrupted the mayor, given that the bass, as a Congress, did not ensure the passage of such immigration improvement.
Bass said, “And why we could not find it? I mean after I left, there was an immigration improvement bill that had bilateral support,” Bass tried to convince Trump. “It was during the campaign. The President decided that he did not want to do so because he did not want the immigration to improve, where he did not take credit for it.”
Given the bounce in the border crossing under the former President Joe Biden, Raddatz asked a border petrol agent if he felt badly for illegal immigrants.
Their response, Raddatz said, yes, but “they are cutting into the line in front of those who want to do it legally correctly.”
American Marines and National Guard soldiers protecting the entrance of the Metropolitan Detention Center at Los Angeles, California on July 4, 2025. (Etienne Laurent/AFP through Getty Image)
Bass said in response, “Let me only tell you that people who make that trek to our border from Central America and even South America, put their lives at risk. I do not believe that all these people are dreaming of coming to Los Angeles.” “They are coming out of frustration.”
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Raddatz said that “hundreds of thousands” illegally crossed the border under the Biden administration. The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) figures, however, recorded about two million more known “Got-e-way” during the tenure of about 10.8 million border encounters and biden. Meanwhile, Trump has reported a record-less border crossing since starting his second term.
Asked if “anything good”. She thinks that the Trump administration has done these six months on the border, Bass said, “Okay, I will praise the administration for the first six months in Los Angeles with fire. If you ask me, if you ask me, is there anything that they have done well in the context of immigration, I do not know that it is understood.
Bass said that it has not recently interacted with the Trump administration about immigration despite the presence of National Guards in the city.
Los Angeles on 4 July 2025, US Marine and National Guard in California. (Etienne Laurent/AFP through Getty Image)
“I have put in a request and I hope. I will always be open for a conversation,” the mayor said. “I want to work with the administration to solve this problem. We have a World Cup in 11 small months. We have Olympics and Paralympics in three small years. I know that these games are very important for the President and I am ready to work with him, and we have many issues to work, and I want to do anything, and I want to do anything.”
The Mayor also replied how she hopes for immigrants in Los Angeles from the next six months to two years, which she understood the “reign of terror” of the Trump administration.
The Pentagon announced last week that he was pulling 2,000 National Guard soldiers from Los Angeles, stating how “chaos” was seen in early June.
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Bass said, “Well, I am just hopeful that this rule of terror will end.” I hope we can return back to normal. “
