La Mayor Joins Controversial Lawsuit To Block Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Measures

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass connected Tuesday announced that her metropolis will beryllium joining nan class-action suit to extremity what she says is "the unconstitutional reckless raids successful nan LA region."

Bass said Los Angeles was joining nan suit because nan Trump administration is treating nan metropolis "as a trial lawsuit for really acold it tin spell successful driving its governmental schedule guardant while pushing nan Constitution aside." 

"The City of Los Angeles, on pinch nan County, cities, organizations and Angelenos crossed L.A., is taking nan Administration to tribunal to extremity its clear usurpation of nan United States Constitution and national law," Bass said successful a property release. "We will not beryllium intimidated – we are making Los Angeles nan illustration of really group who judge successful American values will guidelines together and guidelines united."

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LA Mayor Karen Bass attempted to extremity an ICE ambush connected Monday (Getty Images)

Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto said nan suit is intended to nonstop a connection to nan Trump management that nan metropolis will not let nan raids to go "standard operating procedure." 

"The national authorities has concentrated thousands of equipped migration agents, galore of whom deficiency visible identification, and subject troops successful our communities, conducting unconstitutional raids, roundups and anonymous detentions, sowing fearfulness and chaos among our residents," said Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto. "Today’s mobility to intervene shows we will not guidelines by and let these raids to proceed aliases to go nan modular operating process successful our communities."

A conjugation of individual immigrants and immigrant advocacy organizations, led by The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of California and nan non-profit Public Counsel, revenge nan original class-action suit "Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem," against nan Department of Homeland Security (DHS) demanding an contiguous halt to what it describes arsenic unlawful migration raids crossed nan Los Angeles area targeting migrants pinch "brown skin."

A personification holds a motion successful beforehand of national agents astatine MacArthur Park Monday, July 7, 2025, successful Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

The non-profit accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of carrying retired unconstitutional raids and past keeping migrants successful inhumane conditions without beds and deprived of nutrient and ineligible counsel. Homeland Security has denied each nan claims successful nan lawsuit, saying that immoderate accusations of group profiling are "disgusting and categorically false."

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The suit besides asks those who are now being held successful overcrowded "dungeon-like" accommodation to get entree to counsel, particularly wherever nan conditions are deplorable and unconstitutional.  

The announcement comes connected nan heels of national agents marching done Los Angeles' MacArthur Park and militarized vehicles being deployed to nan streets that Bass said were filled pinch children attending a summertime camp.

Rioters person graffitied buildings crossed LA successful consequence to migration raids.  (HUD )

The merchandise from Bass’s agency suggested that nan actions were for nan "seemingly sole intent of bringing fearfulness to Los Angeles."

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Bass said she and different elected officials will not judge nan beingness of federalized troops and military-style vehicles connected their streets and will usage each assets disposable to bring an extremity to what she characterized arsenic "reckless raids."

Fox News Digital’s Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.