Border Patrol official sends ominous message to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass

Back in May, congressional Republicans and the Department of Homeland Security got their feelings hurt when Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz compared Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations to a “modern-day Gestapo.” But the scenes and sounds emerging from Los Angeles on Monday showed why Walz’s comparison seems apt, as Trump has deployed ICE and other federal agents in a militaristic immigration crackdown that he’s said is intended to “liberate” Los Angeles.

Viral images and media reports offered harrowing scenes of armed federal agents, flanked by members of the California National Guard, sweeping through MacArthur Park, a public space popular with the city’s various immigrant communities. At one point, the masked, heavily armed agents in tactical gear disrupted playing children in a show of force that resulted in no arrests, according to Fox 11 Los Angeles. The DHS said the production — which included 17 Humvees and four tactical vehicles, according to The Associated Press, as well as officers on horseback — was part of “ongoing enforcement operations.”

After L.A. Mayor Karen Bass showed up at the park and confronted officials, one immigration official sent an ominous response that certainly doesn’t dispel the Gestapo comparisons.

“The federal government is not leaving L.A.,” Border Patrol El Centro Sector Chief Gregory Bovino said in an interview with Fox 11 Los Angeles. “I don’t work for Karen Bass. ... We’re going to be here until that mission is accomplished.”

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/border-patrol-los-angeles-macarthur-park-rcna217569

You may not work for her, sonny...but she doesn't have to put up with your boorishness, either.