Wait till Tom Homan sees this.
L.A. will present money help to immigrants affected by raids https://t.co/EKNFQtiyvj
— Los Angeles Occasions (@latimes) July 11, 2025
A day after protesters threw rocks and a gunman fired on ICE brokers throughout a raid on a marijuana farm in Ventura County, California the place exploited unlawful alien youngsters had been discovered to be working, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D-Cuba) introduced the town can be arranging money and meals help to unlawful aliens who’re hiding from the federal authorities.
Bass expressed concern that unlawful aliens aren’t capable of work to pay the lease and feed their households due to the continued immigration enforcement actions in Southern California by the Trump administration.
Bass additionally stated she was anxious about two-income unlawful immigration households who’ve misplaced one revenue as a result of a member has been detained for deportation.
Mayor Bass: “…When it comes to uh, the primary a part of the query that you just requested, what are the sources? Properly, in our neighborhood growth packages, there’s sources there in our household useful resource facilities. However we are also going to have uh, reinstitution of the Angelino card, one thing that Mayor Garcetti began throughout COVID that may truly present money help to folks as a result of, you already know, you might have individuals who don’t wish to depart their houses uh, who aren’t going to work and uh, and they’re in want of money. You already know, I, I’ve met with relations who they wanted two incomes so as to make the lease. Properly, one revenue was misplaced in a raid when somebody was detained. And this girl along with her youngsters now could be involved that she may face being evicted and being homeless. And so, it’s that sort of emergency help. And we’re lucky that there’s lots of philanthropic companions who’ve uh, contributed and lots of extra uh, I hope that may um take part and contribute. We’re organizing uh meals deliveries. I imply there’s all kinds of issues that we’re having to do now to guard folks from the federal authorities…” (Corrected transcript excerpt by way of YouTube.)
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Bass later stated the money could be a number of hundred {dollars}, however wasn’t positive on the precise quantity, and must be accessible in a couple of week. Bass additionally stated in response to a reporter that the cash could be coming from philanthropic organizations that will give the money to neighborhood teams for dispersal to unlawful alien households the teams are accustomed to, noting that she wished she might use taxpayer cash, “I want we had common fund cash for that. No. So, it’s all a hundred percent (philanthropic.)”
The Angelino Card is a city run program, so it isn’t clear how funds non-governmental funds could possibly be added and dispersed via the town.
The hassle to assist unlawful aliens disguise from ICE is a part of an Executive Directive announced Friday by Bass to “shield” immigrants and the town from the federal authorities:
The Govt Directive I simply signed will:
✅Bolster metropolis protocols within the face of ongoing raids
✅Develop entry to sources for households impacted by current raids
✅Present extra info relating to these these illegal and chaotic raids.Los Angeles stands UNITED.… pic.twitter.com/65OMRs2Vgi
— Mayor Karen Bass (@MayorOfLA) July 11, 2025
BREAKING: LA Mayor Karen Bass indicators an govt directive to demand federal companies at hand over particulars of raids in Los Angeles, together with when and the place they occurred, who was detained and the way a lot it value taxpayers.
“There’s a want for me to have an govt directive to… pic.twitter.com/dKzMYNQk0G
— DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) July 11, 2025
EXECUTIVE DIRECTIVE NO. 12
Concern Date: July 11, 2025
Topic: Standing United – A Proud Metropolis of Immigrants
INTRODUCTION
The Metropolis of Los Angeles stays steadfast in its dedication to uphold the dignity, security and constitutional rights of all Metropolis of Los Angeles residents, no matter their immigration standing. In 1979, the Los Angeles Police Division issued Particular Order 40, which prohibits officers from initiating police motion solely to find out somebody’s immigration standing. This coverage remains to be in impact at present as embodied within the LAPD Police Handbook. In December 2024, the Metropolis additional codified protections for the immigrant neighborhood by passing Ordinance 188441, which prohibits using any Metropolis sources, personnel, property and information to assist federal immigration enforcement. This ordinance, entitled “Prohibition of the Use of Metropolis Assets for Federal Immigration Enforcement”, is codified at Los Angeles Administrative Code (LAAC) Part 19.190 et seq. (the “Metropolis’s Ordinance”). In February 2025, steerage was given to all Metropolis departments relating to adherence to the Metropolis’s Ordinance upfront of any potential United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enforcement actions. The Metropolis’s Ordinance complies with and enhances California’s Honest Values Act.
Final month, ICE initiated large-scale immigration enforcement operations throughout Los Angeles. These operations have heightened fears, torn aside households, disrupted the immigrant neighborhood, and interfered with companies and each day life throughout the town. These enforcement actions have deterred Metropolis residents from attending college and church, in search of metropolis providers, accessing healthcare, and going to work. The Metropolis has a duty to make sure the protection of all residents, and Metropolis departments play a important position in offering providers to assist residents and their wants.
To that finish, I hereby direct all Metropolis Departments to:
Develop and implement a preparedness plan, together with Division-specific protocols and coaching, to make sure that all Metropolis staff know tips on how to abide by the Metropolis’s Ordinance and know the way to answer federal immigration enforcement actions on Metropolis properties or services primarily based on steerage from the Metropolis Lawyer’s Workplace.
Work with Metropolis contractors to make sure their staff engaged on Metropolis properties or in Metropolis services know tips on how to abide by the Metropolis’s Ordinance and reply to federal enforcement actions.
Underneath Govt Directive 20 (Garcetti, March 21, 2017) every Basic Supervisor or Head of Division was required to designate an Immigrant Affairs Liaison. The Immigrant Affairs Liaison for every division is hereby directed to report any federal immigration enforcement exercise on Metropolis properties or services.
Suggest providers or packages that may assist households impacted by federal immigrant enforcement actions. These suggestions must be knowledgeable by a radical evaluate of current Metropolis providers and packages and the way they are often leveraged to extend the protection of Angelenos harmed by federal immigrant enforcement actions.
Disseminate info on Metropolis providers and help packages for households impacted by federal enforcement actions via Spanish and different language media.
Submit the above info and plan inside 2 weeks after the issuance of this Govt Directive to the Mayor’s Workplace of Immigrant Affairs.
Moreover, I hereby direct my Workplace to transmit a federal Freedom of Data Act request to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement so as to acquire information relating to the dates and areas of all enforcement actions in Los Angeles, the identities of people and motive(s) they had been arrested or detained, and insurance policies governing each federal officers’ use of badges and different types of identification in addition to masks and different strategies that obscure identification.Moreover, I hereby direct the Data Expertise Company to supply 311 with Know Your Rights info masking the fundamental authorized rights of people no matter standing and methods to attach residents with Metropolis Departments that supply providers, info or coaching.
Moreover, I hereby set up a working group, to be led by the Los Angeles Police Division, in collaboration with the Police Fee and Mayor’s Workplace of Immigrant Affairs, to work with immigrant rights organizations and neighborhood leaders to solicit suggestions on federal enforcement actions and the Metropolis’s response. Moreover, I hereby request the Police Fee, in collaboration with the Chief of Police, to include, the place applicable, the neighborhood suggestions and supply further steerage to law enforcement officials on how to answer conditions involving federal immigration enforcement. Whereas the LAPD Police Handbook offers steerage on how law enforcement officials ought to reply to immigration enforcement actions, and the Chief of Police not too long ago issued a discover to officers with further steerage, ongoing complete evaluate and steerage is important in gentle of the federal authorities’s unprecedented ways used to conduct enforcement.
Executed this eleventh day of July, 2025
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KAREN BASS
Mayor
