USBP Chief Patrol Agent Gregory K. Bovino
@USBPChiefELC
Just moments ago in Van Nuys during federal immigration law enforcement operations, 3 subjects attempted to impede & obstruct our efforts, using improvised devices aimed at disabling our vehicles. All three were arrested & now face felony charges.
Below, a "New York Man" was arrested for threatening to kill an ICE agent and put bullets through the heads of his children.
An aspiring Democrat politician calls for murdering ICE agents:
The leftwing LA Times moans about this. Apparently the criminals and illegals had cleared out, because some rat in the government tipped them off.
Immigration agents in military green surrounded MacArthur Park as the convoy readied for a show of force akin to a Hollywood movie.
They came with horses and armored vehicles, carrying rifles and in tactical gear in the middle of what is the heart of immigrant Los Angeles. But there were few of their supposed targets to be found Monday -- immigrants without documentation.
Since at least Sunday, rumors had spread about an operation at the park. Fliers were plastered around the area, warning that Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or la migra as they're also known, were coming.
It's unclear if anyone was arrested during the sweep. "We don't comment on ongoing enforcement operations," said a senior Department of Homeland Security official when asked for comment on whether any arrests had been made.
"It is outrageous and un-American that we have federal armed vehicles in our park," Mayor Karen Bass said at an impromptu press conference at City Hall after federal authorities cleared out. "What happened to the criminals, the drug dealers, the violent individuals? Who were in the park today were children. It was their summer camp, their summer day camp."
Castroite communist "mayor" Karen Bass demanded that the agents leave "her" city.
Bass claimed, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, that MacArthur Park had been filled with children playing before the Border Patrol operation.
Mayor Karen Bass
@MayorOfLA
This is footage from today in MacArthur Park.
Minutes before, there were more than 20 kids playing -- then, the MILITARY comes through.
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.
Absolutely outrageous.
This is a lie. Like all "public" places in blue shithole cities, MacArthur Park is a no-go zone for law-abiding adults, nevermind children. It's an open-air bazaar for the drug trade and a wall-less motel for the mentally ill.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
NEW: I just spoke to Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino @USBPChiefELC, who was the official on the phone with LA Mayor Karen Bass at MacArthur Park today. I asked him for his message to her, as she demands raids end?
"I don't 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."