{"id":147701,"date":"2025-07-07T14:12:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=147701"},"modified":"2025-07-07T14:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:12:22","slug":"la-mayor-demands-ice-agents-leave-macarthur-park-border-patrol-chief-responds-get-used-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/la-mayor-demands-ice-agents-leave-macarthur-park-border-patrol-chief-responds-get-used-to-it\/","title":{"rendered":"LA mayor demands ICE agents leave MacArthur Park; Border Patrol chief responds, &#8216;get used to it&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>by<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>WorldTribune<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>, July 7, 2025 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Real World News<\/span><\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Monday demanded Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents leave MacArthur Park after a large presence of agents moved in for an operation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The SECOND I heard about this, I went to the park to speak to the person in charge to tell them it needed to end NOW,&#8221; Bass wrote in a post to X. &#8220;Absolutely outrageous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bass was reportedly seen speaking on the phone to a Border Patrol official identified by Fox News&#8217;s Bill Melugin as Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I asked him for his message to her, as she demands raids end,&#8221; Melugin noted.<\/p>\n<p>Bovino replied: &#8220;I don\u2019t work for Karen Bass. Better get used to us now, cause this is going to be normal very soon. We will go anywhere, anytime we want in Los Angeles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Department of Homeland Security helicopter was seen overhead at MacArthur Park on Monday, while agents on the ground were in armored vehicles, unmarked white vans, and even on horseback.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: We are with hundreds of federal agents and military as a massive federal immigration enforcement operation is underway in the MacArthur Park area of the sanctuary city of Los Angeles, an area with heavy MS-13 influence. Mayor Bass has demanded raids stop, Feds respond\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g4osPOL6mr\">pic.twitter.com\/g4osPOL6mr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillMelugin_\/status\/1942280433221484912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 \u201cThey need to leave and they need to leave right now!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayorOfLA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MayorOfLA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KarenBassLA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KarenBassLA<\/a> arrives at MacArthur Park as federal agents raid the area.<\/p>\n<p>She demands to speak to the person in charge and is given a cell phone to speak with leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Video via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOXLA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FOXLA<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sdprod?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sdprod<\/a> \ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uKyv0EgyAT\">pic.twitter.com\/uKyv0EgyAT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elex Michaelson (@Elex_Michaelson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Elex_Michaelson\/status\/1942289331248587004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/freepressfoundation.org\/fight-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ad3434;\">Support<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/freepressfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Free Press Foundation<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by WorldTribune Staff, July 7, 2025 Real World News Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Monday demanded Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents leave MacArthur Park after a large presence of agents moved in for an operation. &#8220;The SECOND I heard about this, I went to the park to speak to the person in charge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":147702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,10,35,12,5],"tags":[80,81,6],"class_list":["post-147701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusives","category-rest-of-the-best","category-top-stories","category-u-s","category-world-links","category-world-tribune","tag-get-used-to-it","tag-la-mayor-demands-ice-agents-leave-macarthur-park-border-patrol-chief-responds","tag-worldtribune-com","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}