Today I was on my way to the uh press
conference with the governor. While I was on the
way though I got alerted that there was a ICE
operation military intervention who knows at MacArthur Park um I
turned around, we went to the park. I
could see a helicopter in the air. I think
it was a Black Hawk helicopter. And I saw
military tanks. It was the uh custom and Border
Patrol, and it might have been military on the
periphery. To me, this is another example of
the administration ratcheting up chaos by deploying what look like
a military operation in an American city. So I
went to MacArthur Park because it is very important that
the truth be told about what happened there. Now
you can spin it any way you like, but
in my opinion it's a political agenda of provoking fear
and terror frankly it is outrageous and un-American. Who
were in the park today were children. It was
their summer camp. Their day, their summer day
camp. Those kids now have no activities this afternoon
. They have to stay inside. They were ushered
inside so that they didn't get exposed to the troops
that were walking in formation across their playground area.
We did not want the children to be aware that
it was ice, although I do have to tell
you that I went and I spoke to an eight
year old. I never let on what was going
on upstairs, but did this 8 year old tell
me that he was afraid of ice? Did the
eight year old tell me that he was afraid of
ICE taking his parents and he didn't think it was
good to take people away? So understand that that
8 year old knows enough of what's going on that
he's already traumatized in anticipation and I don't know if
he had 1/6 sense or not to know that they
were upstairs, but I think it's pretty dramatic that
a child said to me that he was fearful of
ice. So what I saw in the park today
looked like a city under siege, under armed occupation
. Well, I just think it's important that we
continue to tell the truth to the American people.
There was no protest. There was no disorder that
required that.