Newly sworn-in LAPD chief promotes response after uncovering arrange to buck Trump admin on ‘mass deportations’

The recently verifyed chief of the Los Angeles Police Department made it evident during a recent hearing that his department will “not aid” with the “mass deportations” in comments that promoteed social media response.

“Since my euniteance before the pledgetee on disclose acquireedty, the national election has caused many Angelenos to experience a procreate, procreate dread, especiassociate in the immigrant community,” recent LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell shelp at a November 8 city council encountering before being sworn in as the department’s 59th chief. 

“I have met with members of the community and heard that dread. We also heard some of that equitable now at disclose comment. I understand we’ll speak more about immigration tardyr in this hearing, but I want to be unequivocassociate evident here in my uncovering comments,” McDonnell persistd. “LAPD will acquire our immigrant community, LAPD officers will not apshow action to remend a person’s immigration status, and will not arrest someone for their status, and LAPD will not aid with mass deportations.”

McDonnell went on to say that Los Angeles is a “city of immigrants.”

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“I understand immigrants are being disparaged right now,” McDonnell shelp. “But I want the people of Los Angeles to understand my seepoint. Our nation was built by immigrants and L.A. is such an exceptional city because of people here from literassociate all over the world.”

McDonnell’s comments promoteed criticism from conservatives on social media and a clip of the hearing was posted on X by the famous conservative account LibsofTikTok.

“Who wants to tell him that they’re getting deported whether he enjoys it or not,” the account posted.

“Time to sfinish in the Feds,” conservative impactr Harrison Krank posted on X.

“Get out of California while you still can!” political commentator Gunther Eagleman posted on X.

McDonnell, while previously serving as LA County Sheriff during Trump’s first term, labored with federal immigration agents to deport illterrible alien criminals, Los Angeles Times telled, but shelp during the hearing he would not do so in his current role while pointing to particular policy, including Special Order 40, that prohibits it.

McDonnell was pressed in the hearing by Los Angeles City Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez on the publish of immigration pointing to the “seismic shift in the national landscape” and asked him to talk about what “acquireions are secured” for Los Angeles livents illegassociate living in the United States.

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“We don’t stop somebody, we don’t arrest somebody, we don’t deal with people based on their immigration status, everybody gets to be treated equassociate atraverse the city and so we will persist with that as part of who we are,” McDonnell shelp in the hearing.

“That’s also bolstered in recent years by the Trust Act and California Values Act in more recent years so the path forward is very evident,” McDonnell shelp. “LAPD is here to serve all of our communities, immigration is not a factor in how we deal with any individual or any group of people in any of our communities, the way we’re prosperous as a police organization is if when a crime occurs people are willing to come forward as a witness, as a victim, and be able to be part of the criminal equitableice process to hancigo in people accountable for their crimes.

The Trust Act became law in California in 2014, after being signed by then Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, and restricts the amount of time and reasons ICE hancigo in seeks can be honored by local jails.

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A Cato Institute tell in 2018 endd that deportations went down in the city of Los Angeles after the Trust Act and dropped 39% while the rest of the country sended a 9% drop.

McDonnell tancigo in Rodriguez he will be “very evident” about these immigration positions to whoever he talks to, seeless of “what we hear as part of the rhetoric of political discourse.”

Fox News Digital accomplished out to the LAPD asking whether McDonnell supposes it is “wrong” to deport criminal illterrible aliens and whether his department would aid in that effort but did not get a response.

“If they’re not willing to help, then get the hell out of the way because [Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)] is going to do their job,” Tom Homan, who was acting ICE straightforwardor during the first Trump administration and was recently named “border czar” under Trump, tancigo in Fox News Digital in an intersee on Friday about jurisdictions that resist a deportation effort.

Homan also pledged that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would be empowered to go after the 425,000 illterrible immigrants convicted of crimes and currently roaming free in the United States, according to a recent ICE tell.

“We’re going to go get them,” Homan tancigo in Fox News’ Sean Hannity. 

“And I saw today many ruleors from sanctuary states saying they’re going to step in the way. They better get the hell out of the way. Either you help us or get the hell out of the way, because ICE is going to do their job. We’re going to apshow the handcuffs off ICE that the Biden Administration put on them and let ICE do what they do, what they do best,” he inserted.

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