The raid resulted in little more than an empty park and increased tensions between the federal government and Los Angeles’s mayor.

Dozens of federal officers in tactical gear roamed a mostly empty park in a Los Angeles neighborhood with a large immigrant population for about an hour before clearing out.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is condemning the presence of federal agents and National Guard troops who descended on MacArthur Park July 7.

The operation in a neighborhood with a large immigrant population includes 17 Humvees, four tactical vehicles, two ambulances and the armed soldiers.

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.

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.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass meets with Mexico’s Consul General after National Guard and ICE agents descend on MacArthur Park, sparking outrage, legal aid efforts, and diplomatic response.

A day after federal officers and National Guard troops descended on MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, immigrant residents of the surrounding neighborhood were coming to grips with the operation that loca