Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signed an executive order Friday to bolster protocols and support immigrant neighborhoods, including offering cash assistance, in response to raids by the Trump administration targeting those living in the United States illegally.
The order is intended to help protect the city’s workforce and residents from the federal government during immigration enforcement operations.
It also demands that federal agencies provide records of the raids, who was detained and for what reason and the cost to taxpayers, which will be part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
“There is a need for me to have an executive directive to help our city understand how to protect itself from our federal government,” Bass said at a press conference.
“What we have seen here over the last, now six weeks of raids that pop up, and we never know exactly when and where they’re going