It’s still going. I’m leaving early. I’ve got to get to another thing.

This will be the first time ever in the history of the Smithsonian someone has taken one of their displays and forcibly taken possession of it.

What are we doing here? They don’t have the right in Texas to claim this.

I just want to repeat the irony that I am going to sign an executive directive to help the city family understand how to protect the workforce and Angelenos from our federal government.

Right now, the Republicans continue to act as if this is a main priority. Yet none of them are showing up.

I think we’re dealing with something called waste. Eighty-five million dollars worth of waste.

It is important…in my mind, to be there for these witnesses. Unfortunately, we know what happens when this regime gets going.

At some point, somebody realized giving away food out of a government store is not what the government should be doing.

I want to make sure that I’m in the room to correct the record, because a lot of times they like to mischaracterize things.

I’m going to withdraw this amendment, but I’m going to ask my colleagues be honest about it. I hope that we think about this long and hard.

The deportation of eight men to South Sudan – a country plagued by famine and brutal civil war – is abhorrent.

The Trump administration’s barbaric practice of expelling immigrants to dangerous ‘third countries’ is an abuse of our justice system.

Frankly, it is outrageous and un-American that we have federal armed vehicles in our parks when nothing is going on in the parks.

And let me be clear, these militarized ICE raids are not how you keep our communities safe.

These militarized raids are not routine immigration enforcement. They are part of a deliberate, disruptive, and ongoing campaign of cruelty that is an unacceptable assault on our way of life.

Yesterday in Carpinteria, I witnessed ICE agents using unnecessarily aggressive and militarized tactics against local farm workers and peaceful protesters. It was appalling. This is not how we keep our communities safe. As a Member of…

This is for city departments, city employees to understand what their rights are, meaning that you can’t just allow people to come in and run roughshod.

Today, I was at Casitas Pass Road in Carpinteria where ICE was conducting a raid using disproportionate displays of force against local farm workers and our agricultural community.