“Last Thursday, ICE entered our city, and provoked the city, by chasing people through Home Depots and car washes and showing up at schools. And today, showing up at emergency rooms and homeless shelters,” Bass said at the Thursday press conference.

Bass said the raids are the "cause of the problems" across the area and that the problems have been "provoked by the White House."

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Friday (June 13) accused the federal government of using the city as a “test case” for overreach, after days of immigration raids and protests that prompted a rare deployment of U.