Kristi Noem blasts ‘train wreck of mayor' Karen Bass for turning LA into a ‘city of criminals' on fourth day of riots
Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is a 'train wreck' who has turned the City of Angels into a 'city of criminals,' Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem declared Monday.
Noem, defending federal law enforcement efforts to arrest 'the worst of the worst' criminal illegal immigrants, accused Bass and California's lefty Gov. Gavin Newsom of doing 'absolutely nothing' to protect citizens from criminal migrants in Los Angeles.
3 DHS Secretary Kristi Noem blasted Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
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3 'Gavin Newsom has done absolutely nothing, Mayor Bass has done absolutely nothing,' Noem said.
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'Gavin Newsom has done absolutely nothing, Mayor Bass has done absolutely nothing,' the DHS secretary told Fox News host Sean Hannity.
'She is a train wreck of a mayor,' Noem said of Bass, accusing the LA mayor of 'endorsing' criminal activities and allowing LA 'to be completely devastated with crime.'
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3 Anti-ICE rioters torch a car in Los Angeles.
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'Now she's holding press conferences talking about the fact that people have the right to peacefully protest and that they're a city of immigrants, well, they're not a city of immigrants – they are a city of criminals, because she has protected them for so many years. '
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