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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced Tuesday that she will be taking part in a class action lawsuit to stop her saying that her city is an “unconstitutional, reckless attack in the LA area.”
Bus said Los Angeles was taking part in the lawsuit. Trump administration It treats cities as “a test case within the scope of which it can advance political agenda while pushing the constitution aside.”
“The city of Los Angeles, along with counties, cities, organizations and Los Angeles, is taking the administration to court to stop any clear violations of the U.S. Constitution and federal law,” Bus said in a press release. “We are not threatened. We are modeling an example of how people who believe in American values ​​can stand together and unite in Los Angeles.”
The LA mayor ripped for blocking an ice attack at a local park that was attacked by crime.
LA Mayor Karen Bass tried to stop the ice attack on Monday. (Getty Images)
Los Angeles city lawyer Heidi Feldstein Soto said the lawsuit was intended to send the Trump administration a message that the city would not be a “standard operating procedure.”
“The federal government concentrates thousands of armed immigrant agents, many of whom lack visible identification, and the military has put unconstitutional assaults, roundups and anonymous detention in our communities, waking fear and confusion among residents.” “Today’s motion to intervene shows that we will not stand up and that these assaults will continue or become standard operating procedures for our communities.”
The union of individual immigrants Advocacy for immigrants The organization led by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in California and a non-profit public advisor has filed the original class action lawsuit, “Vasquez Perdodo v. Noem.” It calls on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to immediately halt what it describes as an illegal immigration attack across the Los Angeles region targeting immigrants with “brown skin.”
On Monday, July 7th, 2025, a person is signing in front of a federal agent in MacArthur Park, Los Angeles. (AP photo/Damiando Burgergen)
The nonprofit accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of carrying out unconstitutional assaults before maintaining immigration inhumane circumstances without beds and robbing food and lawyers. Homeland Security He denied all claims in the lawsuit, stating that the racial profiling charges were “disgusting, decisively false.”
The ACLU is appealing to block ice raids in Southern California, alleging constitutional violations
The lawsuit also asks people being detained in currently overcrowded “dungeon-like” facilities, particularly when conditions are deplorable and unconstitutional.
Announcement comes to the heels with federal agents marching Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park and militarized vehicles were deployed as the bus said, full of children attending summer camps.
The mob is scribbling buildings in LA in response to immigrant attacks. (HUD)
A release from Bass’s Office suggested that the action was for “the seemingly sole purpose of bringing fear into Los Angeles.”
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Bus said that she and other elected officials would not accept the presence of federal and military-style vehicles on the streets and use all available resources to put an end to what she characterized as a “reckless assault.”
Michael Dorgan of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
