Mayor Karen Bass pledged to do “whatever it takes” to protect all Angelenos from ICE raids while admitting the city may not be able to keep the sanctuary status.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is speaking out against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who took over MacArthur Park where children were playing, calling the takeover attempt “absolutely outrageous,” USA Today reported. Video footage shows armored vehicles, officers ,and armed troops swarming a soccer field on a sunny July 7 day.

Protesters gathered in LA after hundreds of federal agents and military personnel launched an immigration raid in MacArthur Park.

Federal authorities have not explained the point of the exercise. But local authorities believe it was to sow fear as part of a continuing crackdown on the “sanctuary city” that has stood up to President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration agenda.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Los Angeles city leaders will be holding an event Monday morning marking six months since the deadly Palisades and Eaton fires killed more than two dozen people and decimated entire communities.

Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Monday demanded federal agents leave the scene at a MacArthur Park immigration raid.

U.S. military troops and federal immigration officers made a mighty but brief show of force Monday at MacArthur Park dubbed the “Ellis Island of the West Coast” as the community hub of a largely immigrant neighborhood in Los Angeles.

Back in May, congressional Republicans and the Department of Homeland Security got their feelings hurt when Minnesota Gov.