Commentary: Bass defends her turf: ‘Let me be clear: I won’t be intimidated’ by Trump

He chooses Los Angeles, the President of the United States, who does not like to play bully. But La Mayor Karen Bass, not It is known as a public fight until recentlyHe throws staples and his own jabs and upper parts.

He accused President Trump of starting the protests he condemned and called the internal security secretary Kristi NOEM as a liar to propose It was a city of turmoil with.

On Tuesday, I talked to him about what it was like to cope with such a president, but before chatting, he stepped into the podium in the City Hall surrounded by labor, work and belief leaders. He defended his grass again.

“This is actually an entire attack against Los Angeles, Bass condemned the US Department of Justice, who accused him of preventing war against the“ illegal immigration crisis ”. A political stunt, BASS denied that the sacred city guards of the city were illegal.

“We know that Los Angeles is a test status, Bass Bass said. “And we will stand strong, and we do it because people have broken out of the city streets and we have been chased by car parks, our family members and they Angelenos.

This was not the best year of Bass’s political career. Started with The destruction of Pacific Palisades BASS continued with a forest fire that began with the outside city and with questions about who would lead to the second forecast of La’s preparation for disaster and the effort to rebuild.

Jump Permanent disaster of widespread homeless And Shaking on a city budget deficitAnd Bass 2026 seemed to be vulnerable in the selection offer.

Then, from June 6, the arrival of federal agents and troops with raids came and Bass opposed the species and began to find his feet.

Fernando Guerra, a professor of political science at the University of Loyola Marymount, said, “His natural instinct is to be a coalition founder – he will consciously manage.” But this does not work with Trump, “That’s why he calibrates and you know, all that man understands.”

Pomona College Political Professor Sara Sadhwani said that Trump attacked the heart and nucleus of Los Angeles ve, and the president’s actions may be undesirable consequences considering many ways of merging many Angelenos. “I think the vast majority of people in Los Angeles, but at the same time throughout the province, may admit that what is currently not good and contradicts our values, Sad said Sadhwani continued. “And Bass shows incredibly strong leadership.”

President Trump shook hands with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass after a fire briefing in Pacific Palisades on January 24th.

(Mark Schiefelbein / Associated Press)

Even a Half dozen republican state legislators He joined the opposition and claimed that Trump focused on arrest of real criminals instead of pursuing people who made up an important component of the economy.

As Sadhwani said, Republican MPs have laded for years of federal extreme access and defended the state’s rights and local control. Nevertheless, the Trump administration is preparing to explain how to manage California and Los Angeles, despite the court that they have been protected within the scope of the 10th amendment.

After the press conference on Tuesday, he retreated to the Bass office and said that his support to the immigrants started with his work as an activist in the 1970s.

“Who I am on this basis. But of course A mixed family”Factors to immigration policy is also.” My former husband was a Chicano activist… I have other family members who are married to people from the Philippines, Korea, Japan. My family has a Greek side. “

When he gathered, his family is like the United Nations General Assembly. ” He said.

And Los Angeles looks like this with stories that cross the world and exceed the limits.

“I don’t see anyone [here] In some cities, you can imagine that this will be a multi -separatist problem in some cities. ”

I told him that I often heard from people: “What do you don’t understand about the word illegal?” Or one of the people who argue that their relatives are legally waiting and migrated.

I understand these perspectives, I told Bass. But I also understand the context – that is, the desire to search for better opportunities for people of people, and the charm that allows it to allow it to condemn immigrant labor in a United States and implicitly condemning it.

While working at the Congress, BASS said he witnessed the fee committed by the separation of families along the border. He has met with “the feeling of insecurity, the sense of abandonment” throughout their lives.

At least the mayor said that federal agents should define themselves and have warrants and should stop taking people out of the street. Original intention, remember, [was to go after] Hardened criminals. Where are the hardened criminals? Are they chasing them with parking lots in Home Depot? Are they washing a car? I don’t think so. “

The US Marine Posts after the guard in the federal building in the corner of Veteran Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles on June 19.

(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

In fact, the majority of the prisoners in Los Angeles have a majority No criminal record.

As for the cost of the raids in La – by a administration promised to reduce the government – BASS wanted to earn a few points.

“You think of young men and women in the national guards. They leave their families, work, schools. What for?” he asked. “The abuse of these troops. And the same thing as the maritime pillars. They are not trained to deal with something on the street. They were trained to fight to kill the enemy in foreign lands.”

While we are talking, Bass, Mount St. She received an emergency call from her daughter Yette Lechuga, a senior administrative assistant at Mary’s University. Lechaga said that a woman was caught on the way out of the shuttle.

“Apparently Ice caught our student, Lech Lechuga said.

Bass said his staff would look at it.

“We’ve been half -locked for a while,” Lechaga said.

“Jesus Christ,” the mayor said.

Steve.lopez@latimes.com