Big-City Mayors

We didn't have a problem until Trump got involved.

This is a city of immigrants. This is a city that wants to help you get your legal status.

Trump may be using the city as a 'test case' for stripping authority from state and local governments.

The deployment of the Marines from Twentynine Palms is an intensely risky move.

We didn’t need the National Guard. Why on Earth? What are they going to do?

Come and get me, tough guy.

In dynamic and fluid situations such as the one in Los Angeles, State and local authorities are the most appropriate ones to evaluate the need for resources and safeguard life and property.

We talked for almost 20 minutes, and he barely — this issue never came up.

He had absolutely positively no reason to even say that.

So, Tom, arrest me. Let's go.

Didn’t inherit a crisis — he created one.

He’s a tough guy. Why doesn’t he do that? He knows where to find me.

He’s hoping for chaos so he can justify more crackdowns, more fear, more control.

If you deploy the National Guard, it’s going to be very incendiary, and things are going to erupt, and that creates a public safety problem.

The Secretary of Defense is now threatening to deploy active-duty Marines on American soil against its own citizens. This is deranged behavior.

The level of escalation is completely unwarranted, uncalled for, and unprecedented.

This is a day I hoped I would never see in America.

This is un-American.

Nothing warranted the raids.

This is creating fear and chaos in our city, and it is unnecessary.

These are the acts of a dictator, not a president.

Tom, arrest me. Let’s go.

The Secretary of Defense is now threatening to deploy active-duty Marines on American soil against its own citizens. This is deranged behavior.

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers.