MacArthur Park ICE raid: armed officers sweep sparks outrage in LA
By the time the officers had made the sweep on Monday morning, word had already spread about their intended visit to the park, located in the Westlake neighbourhood and dubbed the 'Ellis Island of the West Coast' for its immigrant population by Eunisses Hernandez, an LA city council member.
When about 90 National Guard troops and dozens of federal officers descended on the park, it was nearly empty, save a few children at a summer camp.
Karen Bass, the LA mayor, nonetheless denounced their brief show of force as 'outrageous and un-American', before showing up at the park herself to confront the officers. In a live feed filmed from the park, Bass could be heard speaking to a border patrol chief on the phone, asking: 'You're getting ready to leave? Can you leave ASAP?'
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