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  • 6 months ago
Speaking to CNN on Sunday, LA Mayor Karen Bass (D-CA) spoke about President Trump's deportation efforts.
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00:00I'll tell you that I don't know if anybody buys that here.
00:02First of all, we don't have, you know, big fields in Los Angeles.
00:06So the agricultural piece does not affect us.
00:09But in terms of the hotels, absolutely, and that's a good thing.
00:13But I wish that he would look at the broader impact on our economy.
00:17For example, the construction industry cannot function without immigrant labor.
00:22Our fashion industry, where there's over 4,000 businesses, looks like a ghost town now.
00:27You hear people talking in restaurants all over about how they don't want to go out anymore.
00:33You have people that won't come out of their house because they don't want to buy groceries.
00:37You have churches that are on hybrid because people are afraid to go to churches.
00:41Why? Because there was an arrest outside a church.
00:45So all of this has created a feeling of fear and terror around our city.
00:51And like I said before, is a body blow to the overall economy of the state's second largest city.
00:58And the, I'm sorry, the nation's second largest city.
01:02I really appreciate that question.
01:04There is zero comparison.
01:07What you were talking about that is happening in downtown Los Angeles is about maybe one or two square miles of a city that is 500 square miles.
01:16In 1992, and you're absolutely correct, I was at the epicenter when it was occurring.
01:21It was a citywide civil unrest.
01:25It was the nation's worst in terms of the most costly, the number of people died, the number of people arrested.
01:31There is no comparison.
01:33And unfortunately, that is what is being pushed, as though the city is in chaos.
01:37There's civil unrest everywhere.
01:39For most Angelenos, they're like, what city are they describing?
01:42They are definitely not describing Los Angeles.
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