- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem branded Los Angeles “a city of criminals” while defending the Trump administration’s actions.
- Noem criticized Mayor Karen Bass for calling LA “a city of immigrants,” alleging that Bass had “protected them for years,” leading to violence.
- Noem said that ICE raids searched for “over 400 to 500 targets” of known gang members who had been “victimizing people for years,” while Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom did “absolutely nothing.”
- Critics online slammed Noem’s comments, with some calling them “super offensive” and accusing her of hating America and Americans.
- Noem defended the deployment of the National Guard, stating, “We’re coming in and doing what the president has said that he’s going to do and he’s going to allow people to live in a safe community again.”
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