Kids running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields. Trump calls me 'Newscum'—but he's the real scum.

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.

Kids running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields.

ICE was conducting a raid using disproportionate displays of force against local farmworkers and our agricultural community.

Trump calls me 'Newscum,' but he's the real scum.

I condemn any assault on law enforcement.

The numbers don't lie: the majority of Americans agree that immigration is overwhelmingly good for our country and our economy.

They are also a gross misuse of limited resources and a betrayal of the values that define us as Americans.

These militarized ICE raids are not how you keep our communities safe. This kind of chaos only traumatizes families and tears communities apart.

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.

They were creating fear, anxiety and intimidation.

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…

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

They are motivated by a political agenda of provoking fear and terror.

The family members that are left behind don’t know whether their family members are in the city, in the state, or even in the country.

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.

The city will coordinate between philanthropists and organizations distributing the cards, according to the mayor’s office.

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.