LA Mayor Bass claims immigration enforcement creating ghost town effect comparable to COVID lockdowns

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass compared the economic impact of immigration raids on small businesses to government lockdowns imposed by her party on California during the coronavirus pandemic, in an interview on Sunday.

Bass made the comments after visiting several small businesses and residential areas in the predominantly-Latino community of Boyle Heights that morning, along with Assemblymember Mark Gonzalez, D-Los Angeles, according to The Los Angeles Times. The mayor described observing...