LA Mayor Bass Slams Trump's Deportations, Says They Have Created 'A Feeling Of Fear And Terror'

Speaking to CNN on Sunday, LA Mayor Karen Bass (D-CA) spoke about President Trump's deportation efforts.

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00:00I'll tell you that I don't know if anybody buys that here.

00:02First of all, we don't have, you know, big fields in Los Angeles.

00:06So the agricultural piece does not affect us.

00:09But in terms of the hotels, absolutely, and that's a good thing.

00:13But I wish that he would look at the broader impact on our economy.

00:17For example, the construction industry cannot function without immigrant labor.

00:22Our fashion industry, where there's over 4,000 businesses, looks like a ghost town now.

00:27You hear people talking in restaurants all over about how they don't want to go out anymore.

00:33You have people that won't come out of their house because they don't want to buy groceries.

00:37You have churches that are on hybrid because people are afraid to go to churches.

00:41Why? Because there was an arrest outside a church.

00:45So all of this has created a feeling of fear and terror around our city.

00:51And like I said before, is a body blow to the overall economy of the state's second largest city.

00:58And the, I'm sorry, the nation's second largest city.

01:02I really appreciate that question.

01:04There is zero comparison.

01:07What you were talking about that is happening in downtown Los Angeles is about maybe one or two square miles of a city that is 500 square miles.

01:16In 1992, and you're absolutely correct, I was at the epicenter when it was occurring.

01:21It was a citywide civil unrest.

01:25It was the nation's worst in terms of the most costly, the number of people died, the number of people arrested.

01:31There is no comparison.

01:33And unfortunately, that is what is being pushed, as though the city is in chaos.

01:37There's civil unrest everywhere.

01:39For most Angelenos, they're like, what city are they describing?

01:42They are definitely not describing Los Angeles.