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The raid resulted in little more than an empty park and increased tensions between the federal government and Los Angeles’s mayor.
U.S. military troops and federal immigration officers made a brief but mighty show of force Monday at a Los Angeles park in a neighborhood dubbed the “Ellis Island of the West Coast" for its large immigrant population.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is condemning the presence of federal agents and National Guard troops who descended on MacArthur Park July 7.
California National Guard soldiers arriving in Humvee military vehicles backed a Monday sweep of a park in a neighborhood of Los Angeles heavily populated by immigrants, according to L.A. Mayor Karen Bass.
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About 90 members of the California National Guard were present to protect immigration officers, defense officials said.
Video shows armed federal agents, some on horses, walking across a soccer pitch. Mayor Bass said minutes before, more than 20 kids were playing on the field.