"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.

It feels like we’re participating involuntarily in a stunt to see what happens when the federal government steps in, how far can they go usurping state power or local power, and as a warning to other cities around the country.

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.