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Virtually every local elected official is speaking up. At a Friday press conference Bass was joined by a battery of outraged politicians, among them U.S. Reps Sydney Kamlager-Dove and Judy Chu, and state Senate President Mike McGuire. In a weekend video, District 11 Councilmember Traci Park slammed the raids, echoing the point that working people, not criminals, are being targeted. She detailed the fear that exists, even in her Westside territory.
Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) pointed out that Trump’s DOJ is openly planning on politicizing FACE to support their own antiabortion goals. In January of this year, Trump pardoned 23 known antiabortion extremists, who were in prison for invading and blockading clinics and violently injuring providers and clinic staff. At the same time, the DOJ ordered prosecutors to stop enforcing the FACE Act in abortion cases except under “extraordinary circumstances,” essentially opening the door for extremists to continue harassing abortion clinics with impunity.
Protests against the Trump administration Saturday were predominantly peaceful, including in Los Angeles which has seen over a week of demonstrations against President Trump’s agenda. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) joins Alex Witt to discuss yesterday’s events.
Protests against the Trump administration Saturday were predominantly peaceful, including in Los Angeles which has seen over a week of demonstrations against President Trump’s agenda. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) joins Alex Witt to discuss yesterday’s events.
LOS ANGELES – Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) and Mayor Bass were joined today by nearly 30 Congressional and state legislators to call for an end to immigration raids ahead of the President’s military march this weekend. Watch the press conference here.
Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove
Mayor Karen Bass and Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove were joined by more than 20 members of the L.A. County Congressional delegation and state lawmakers to demand an end to recent ICE raids and the deployment of troops in the city.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) told the administration’s official in charge of export controls that those restrictions should be based on national security, not trade agreements.
“A Senator being treated like a criminal for asking questions about Trump’s disgraceful ICE raids is an attack on every American’s freedom,” Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Los Angeles, wrote on X. “The FBI are not the president’s secret police.”
“This is about if it bleeds, it leads,” said Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Los Angeles). “So he has created and manufactured violence so that he can have a show on the television. But other people — older people, folks who are disabled, young people — are going to be bleeding when Medicaid gets cut, when people are evicted from their homes.”
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia, delivered remarks at a subcommittee hearing entitled, "Bureau of Industry and Security FY26 Budget: Export Controls and the AI Arms Race."
You can read her remarks as delivered below: