Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Says it’s ‘Sad’ That Latino Americans Are Joining ICE
“But I do understand that their primary incentive is financial.”
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass apparently cannot understand why Americans who happen to be Latino might join ICE. During an appearance on CNN, she suggested that this was sad and then implied that they must be just doing it for the money.
Is it really so difficult to think these folks might be doing it out of a sense of love of country, or a dedication to law and order?
Bass was responding to a report on the topic. From the New York Post:
The report Bass was asked to respond to included interviews with Hispanic agents and recruits explaining how they respond to critics who say they are arresting their “own kind” or “own blood.”
“They didn‘t come in the right way. So, they aren‘t my kind,” 20-year-old Border Patrol recruit Juan Peralta told CNN correspondent David Culver.
Border Patrol Agent Claudio Herrera explained that he has no qualms with carrying out his duties.
“I’m protecting my community,” the proud agent said. “I’m protecting both sides of the border.”
More than half of Border Patrol agents are Hispanic, according to federal government data.
Bass believes Hispanic Americans are flocking to join the agency “primarily” for financial reasons.
FOX News has details on her reaction:
LA Mayor Bass laments historic Latino Border Patrol recruitment surge across southern border
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is lamenting the historic numbers of Latinos joining the Border Patrol.
In an interview Friday with Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room,” Blitzer asked Bass, “But first, let me get your reaction to that report from David Culver we just heard. What did you think?”
“Well, in a way, I think it’s sad,” Bass responded. “I think that those Border Patrol agents are going to have a difficult time when they’re out in the field and they see what actually happens in real life separate from their training. But I do understand that their primary incentive is financial. I think it just speaks to the financial situation that millions of Americans find themselves in. And I definitely am concerned about that report.”
Here’s the clip:
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass claims that Hispanic-Americans who work for ICE only do it for the money.
BASS: "But I do understand that their primary incentive is financial." pic.twitter.com/SFv8Dm2gES
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I can think of something else that’s sad.
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What a moron. I wish ICE could sweep her up and deport her anywhere that would take her if such a place could be found. How stupid can you be to live in LA and vote for Bass, Newsome, the clown car of senators and reps, and the shitshow that is the CA state government.
Send her to Cuba.
Furthermore, I would hesitate to blame LA voters until CA’s election system is completely overhauled.
Democrats don’t have to waste time and money stealing elections in CA. The voters are that dumb.
She’s a racist dumBass.
Wut?
Corruptocrat mayor fails to understand actions not driven by tribalism?
How can people with a Spanish surname fail to be anything but sympathetic to criminals who also have Spanish surnames?
Mind boggling, indeed.
I suppose that Richard Ramirez was a saint by Karen Bass’ standards
It’s a not-commie thing, Karen.
You wouldn’t understand.
1 year.
Still not a single home rebuilt after the disaster in your city.
Karen Carp
Octavio Paz is in my tribe
The writer’s morality does not lie in the subjects he deals with or the arguments he sets forth, but in his behavior towards language.
_Alternating Current_ p.67
And they jumped all over Trump when he said the judge of Mexican descent was deciding against him because of his ethnicity.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/senior-republicans-criticize-trumps-remarks-hispanic-judge-162919963.html
I’m a Latino American myself. This DEi/commie “woman” is garbage of the highest level.
“….critics say they are arresting their “own kind” or “own blood.”
Does that apply to Blacks arresting Blacks or Whites arresting Whites? Or is that just some crap she made up?
What a racist a-hole? Does she think that Latino Americans can’t love their country and want to serve it’s best interest?
Black women should be cleaning toilets.
It’s pretty sad you’re mayor of America’s 2nd largest city.
But there you are.
No, Ms Fish, their motivation is that they are Latino AMERICANS, not Latinos in America.
They want to protect their country from invasion.
On a separate note, it’s all the same demanding land acknowledgements and de-colonization that want to let these folks in to colonize our country.
“all the people“
/facepalm/
“all the same people”
I hate typing on a phone.
I know. Mexican guy who waited 12 years to get his Green Card. He is pissed so many millions were allowed to butt in line.
Not surprising she can’t think outside the narrow tribal view.
From the Democrat point of view it’s like free blacks in the 1850s signing up as slave-catchers.
That ever-present rictus grin just adds to her awfulness.
one of the best things to come out of alll of this…
browns asserting themselves over the blmplo faction that wants them to join in their fight against the judeo christian agenda
Karen Bass, mayor of Las Angeles, on propagandist media outlet CNN; the completely dysfunctional female tribal chieftain of a major multi-tribe hillside settlement supporting homelessness, drug addiction, single-, dual-, and multi-parent led family-type groups and faux friends who live, variously, in mansions, tents, cardboard boxes, or once in a multitude of now-burned down dwellings.
Some of Barack Obama’s best work.
Why does LA mayor dumBass support human trafficking of illegal aliens?