Troops and federal agents briefly descend on LA's MacArthur Park in largely immigrant neighborhood
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Source: AP
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dozens of federal officers in tactical gear and about 90 members of the California National Guard were deployed for about an hour Monday to a mostly empty park in a Los Angeles neighborhood with a large immigrant population. It wasn’t immediately known if any arrests were made.
Defense officials had said the troops and over a dozen military vehicles would help protect immigration officers as they carried out a raid in MacArthur Park.
“What I saw in the park today looked like a city under siege, under armed occupation,” said Mayor Karen Bass, who called it a “political stunt.”
She said there were children attending a day camp in the park who were quickly ushered inside to avoid seeing the troops. Still, Bass said an 8-year-old boy told her that “he was fearful of ICE.”
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/california-immigration-raid-troops-military-2d81f5c35f9d11db9e32234e03480497
Same MacArthur Park the song refers to.
Some creative soul will come up with something.
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