Democrat Mayor Says She Wants To Make Los Angeles A Sanctuary City Before Trump Gets Into Office

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass confirmed this week she wants to see her city officially become a “sanctuary” for illegal immigrants before President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House next year.

Bass, a Democrat who has served as the mayor of Los Angeles since December 2022, would like to see the quick passage of an ordinance proposal that would make her hometown a sanctuary city before the year’s end, according to comments she made to local radio station KNX News. The statements position her as one of the latest Democratic politicians aiming to stymie Trump’s hardline 🛂Immigration agenda.

The Democrat mayor said she was originally not aware that Los Angeles wasn’t a sanctuary city already, noting that it needs to become one before Trump takes back the White House in January.

“I was actually surprised about that because I thought we were a sanctuary city for years,” Bass told KNX. “So what the difference is is the policies that were put in place were not permanent policies. So I imagine that the council will be voting on sanctuary cities hopefully very, very soon.”

“We will stand with the immigrant community and whatever policy they put forward, we will make sure that people in Los Angeles are not hurt and families are not separated,” the mayor said.

Trump — who sailed to victory on Election Day in an electoral landslide — has made a number of hawkish immigration proposals while on the campaign trail, such as completing the southern border wall, reviving the Remain in Mexico program and hiring more Border Patrol agents. The president-elect also made other, more hardline campaign pledges, such as conducting the “largest deportation program in American history” and an end to birthright citizenship for those born on American soil by illegal migrant parents.