Federal agents carried out a major immigration raid in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, despite objections from Mayor Karen Bass, who appeared at the scene in protest.
“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,” Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin noted on the X platform.
“Mayor Bass has demanded raids stop, Feds respond with one of the largest yet, including Border Patrol agents on horseback. Protesters already showing up,” he added.
Melugin also shared a video of Bass speaking with a Border Patrol agent, who seemed to call someone and then handed the phone to her.
Local Fox affiliate KTTV-TV reported that the Democratic mayor could be heard saying on the phone, “They have completed their mission here,” and “What’s the timeframe before they leave?”
Asked by a reporter if she wanted to make a statement, Bass responded: “They need to leave and they need to leave right now, because this is unacceptable!”
Monday’s raid followed a wave of anti-ICE protests and riots in Los Angeles last month in response to ongoing immigration enforcement. Tensions escalated further last month, when U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, a California Democrat, was forcibly removed from a news conference in L.A. led by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
She said that immigration enforcement operations would be ongoing in Los Angeles and elsewhere.
“We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate this city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and mayor have placed on this country and what they’ve tried to insert in this city,” she said.
At that moment, Padilla abruptly interrupted Noem’s remarks, walking toward her and speaking loudly over her. Most people in the room had no idea who he was until security officers stepped in and escorted him out.
Later, Noem, said, “I had a conversation with the senator after this. We sat down for 10 to 15 minutes and talked about the fact that nobody knew who he was. He didn’t say who he was until he … already had been lunging forward, and people were trying to detain him for quite a period of time.”
Border czar Tom Homan on Monday vowed to continue immigration enforcement operations in New York City and other sanctuary cities, even as the Trump administration prepares legal action against Los Angeles and other jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities.
“We’re going to be in New York City and President Trump said it two weeks ago,” Homan told reporters. “We’re going to double down and triple down on sanctuary cities. Why? Not because they’re a blue city or a blue state… because we know that’s where the problem is.”
“They’re releasing public safety threats and national security threats to the streets every day,” he said. “We know that. We don’t have that problem in Florida, where every sheriff in the state is working with us. I’ve said it before, we’ll flood the zone on sanctuary cities.”
“I’ve said it before, we’ll flood the zone with sanctuary cities. If they don’t let us arrest a bad guy in the county jail, they’re going to arrest them in the community, we’re going to arrest them at a work site,” he added.
“We’re going to get the bad guys, so if they don’t want to help, get out of the way, we’re coming to do it.”
According to allegations and evidence presented by U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson, the Democratic-controlled North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles has been found to be registering noncitizens to vote in violation of federal laws, while residents of North Carolina wait in long lines outside the buildings and young drivers wait months for their license tests.
As reporter Naomi Kowles describes, Charlotte, North Carolina’s Democrat-run WBTV is rushing to fill in for their fellow Democrats at the NCDMV and Governor Josh Stein’s offices, saying it’s all a minor mistake and nothing to worry about.
— “A Hispanic woman from Charlotte was unaware that a federal investigator and a police officer had knocked on her door earlier this year to question her about a voter registration of which she was not aware. To find out why the woman’s name had been included in a letter sent by a federal prosecutor to the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles, WBTV Investigates went to her house and spoke with her in Spanish in collaboration with Jorge Andrés of QC Life. After discussing the registration with the woman, Andres stated, “She didn’t know until they contacted her
.” The woman informed WBTV that she was unaware of what had happened at the time, is lawfully in the United States, and is not facing any criminal charges. WBTV is not naming the woman at her request and for her protection. U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson is charging the DMV with unlawfully registering to vote six noncitizens, including her. According to documents that WBTV collected, investigators believed that in almost all cases, the registered individuals were unaware of what had occurred. (
See the source.)
ALIPAC entirely agrees with U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson, who was appointed by Republican DOJ head Pam Bondi earlier this year, and Same Hays, the newly appointed Republican leader of the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE), who are worried that this small sample of illegal noncitizen voters is a sign of a larger systemic issue.
“Our rapidly growing archives contain proof and documentation of illegal immigrants and other noncitizens illegally registering and voting in US elections despite our laws and indicate that America has many systematic vulnerabilities in our elections that Democrats are eager to exploit in pursuit of power, control, and permanent political dominance
,” stated William Gheen, a lifelong resident of North Carolina and the founder of ALIPAC. “We call on federal authorities, the NC SBE, and our Republican legislature to authorize and conduct a full screening of North Carolina’s voter registration records to remove all felonious noncitizen voters from our elections
.”
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For NC State Senator Fern Shubert’s 2004 gubernatorial campaign, William Gheen was the first North Carolina citizen and campaign consultant to correctly estimate the state’s illegal population at over 400,000.
These new findings in North Carolina will be posted on the website www.NonCitizenVoters.com, added to ALIPAC’s Non-Citizen & Illegal Migrant Voters (HERE). The information was gathered in the archives and eventually added to the main tracking database. Copies of this press release are being distributed to Republican staff and state and federal lawmakers.
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In a letter to the NCDMV, US Attorney Russ Ferguson stated, “We have come across some ineligible people who have registered to vote at the DMV but are unaware that they have done so… They consistently state that a DMV staffer only gave them paperwork to sign. Although many of these people do not understand English well enough, that form is presented in English. Although the majority of them remembered signing an electronic block at the DMV, they thought it was a necessary step in the driver’s license application process
.”
The Democrats at WBTV appear to be more concerned about “Hispanics” who registered to vote as noncitizens and committed felonies than about American voters whose ballots might be stolen by these illegally registered individuals! The story lacks the American perspective on this issue.
Since Democrat Governors like Roy Cooper and Josh Stein have crammed these offices with their Democratic patrons, we now find that while Americans wait in line, noncitizens are inside DMVs illegally being registered to vote by Democratic-appointed state employees. North Carolina DMVs have been in the news for numerous scandals involving absurdly long lines and wait times for services.
ALIPAC urges all Americans to contribute to the elimination of all illegal noncitizen voters from the 2026 election cycle.