LA mayor Bass worries ICE raids will leave ‘nobody to do childcare’
By Fox News
Published June 12, 2025, 6:47 a.m. ET
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass told Katie Couric on Tuesday that people will begin noticing the impact of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids once there’s “nobody to do childcare” or tend to their gardens.
Since riots broke out in her city last week, Bass has largely blamed President Donald Trump for provoking the unrest by conducting immigration enforcement operations to arrest illegal immigrants. She claimed that this action was what inspired the anti-ICE protests that escalated into violent altercations and vandalism.
Speaking with Couric on the reporter’s YouTube channel, Bass revealed her biggest concern is the impact of illegal immigrants being arrested or too afraid to go to work.
“My biggest fear is the impact that all Angelenos will begin to feel when the labor of immigrants is absent,” Bass said. “We’ll feel it in the construction industry. We’ll feel it in hospitality. We’ll feel it at grocery stores. People will begin to notice.”
She continued, “You think about the mothers who have nannies and housekeepers. They will feel it when there’s nobody to do childcare and there’s nobody to take their kids to school. You know, you will feel it when your gardener goes away, and you don’t know where he or she is. So Angelenos will feel the absence of immigrant labor.”
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