Judge's ruling on National Guard temporarily blocked, ICE activity continues throughout SoCal

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and numerous community leaders came together on Thursday afternoon to condemn the remarks of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who described the city as a war zone.

During Noem's earlier press conference, California Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed while attempting to ask her a question -- sparking backlash from both sides of the political spectrum.

Bass and the community leaders -- made up of religious leaders, business owners, union leaders, and more -- wanted to show that Los Angeles stands together amid ongoing ICE raids and wants federal agents out of the city.

Watch L.A. Mayor Karen Bass' statement from her press conference on Thursday afternoon.

"You want to know Los Angeles? This is Los Angeles," Bass said, in a room full of supporters from across the city. "We are a city of labor, we are a city of businesses, we are a city of faith, we are a city of believers, and we are a city of dreamers."

"Last Thursday, ICE entered our city and provoked the city by chasing people through Home Depots and car washes and showing up at schools, and today, showing up at emergency rooms and homeless shelters," Bass said.

Bass slammed the DHS, which claimed that Padilla "interrupted a live press conference without identifying himself or having his Senate security pin on as he lunged toward Secretary Noem."

"You want to know Los Angeles? This is Los Angeles," Bass said, in a room full of supporters from across the city.

"How could you say that you did not know who he was? We see the videotape. We see him saying who he was. But how could you not recognize one of two senators in our state?" Bass said.

"It is my understanding that she arrived here late last night, was here for a few hours today, and came to that conclusion," Bass said about Noem calling the city a war zone. "There's no one up here that sees Los Angeles like that."

She emphasized that vandalism from protests is isolated to a few blocks in a city that is over 500 square miles.

Noem says that Bass is not responding to calls from the White House, something Bass has denied, adding that she served with Noem in Congress for 10 years, but she doesn't recognize her anymore.

Another Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid unfolded in Compton on Thursday morning.

AIR7 was overhead at Saint George Logistics, a trucking company, just after 10 a.m.

Family members and onlookers were seen filming and opposing the raid, with one man standing in front of a van, not letting it pass.

Eyewitness News spoke to a brother and sister who showed up at the business when they heard what was going on. They said their father is a big rig driver for the company, and they were worried about his safety and well-being.

Family members and onlookers were seen filming and opposing the raid, with one man standing in front of a van, not letting it pass.

"I don't know what's going to happen, what's going to be... we know the plan A, plan B, but we don't know what's going to happen next," said Fanny Fernandez.

"This changes, like, the entire economic system that I have, with like, my family, right? And it's just like, it's a lot of panic in my mind," Ricardo Fernandez said. "My worry is, like, can I just walk around and like, I'm brown-skinned, right? Am I just going to get picked off whenever?"

They said their father has been living in the United States undocumented for 33 years, working for the trucking business and taking care of them.

When Eyewitness News first spoke to Ricardo and Fanny, they couldn't get ahold of their father. They thought he was holed up somewhere on the property in his truck, waiting for the all-clear to leave.

They later got in touch with their father, and he was able to leave.

Eyewitness News reached out to ICE, asking how many people were taken into custody on Thursday. Meanwhile, witnesses at the trucking company said the agents left without detaining anyone.

"The fear is real, it really is. I understand their frustrations. I understand their fear. In order for them to be safe, it's the best thing for us to do, is really to provide them with the resources in order for them to make sure that they are safe," Compton Mayor Emma Sharif said outside of the trucking company.

President Donald Trump is reversing course on his immigration raid policy when it comes to farm workers, he announced on Truth Social.

"Our great farmers and people in the hotel and leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long-time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace," Trump wrote. "...We must protect our farmers, but get criminals out of the U.S.A. Changes are coming!"

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the change is happening because Californians spoke up. "Keep it going. Keep it peaceful. It's working," he wrote on X.

In a post on social media, Newsom shared a story about a 12-year-old boy he met in Oxnard whose parents had been taken by agents. They had been working the fields for over 20 years.

"Donald Trump may not care about him, but he's finally listening to you calling out these indiscriminate acts of cruelty," Newsom said. "Let's keep up the pressure, and let's do it peacefully.

Newsom added that he is watching the Trump administration closely and will hold the president to his word.

Eyewitness News previously reported about ICE agents targeting workers on produce farms in Ventura County on Tuesday morning in one of the latest raids in Southern California.

Farm workers told Eyewitness News that ICE agents arrived at an Oxnard farm at around 6 a.m. Tuesday.

"We saw a car when we were on the side, the car was coming, and ICE was following the car," said one of the workers who asked to remain anonymous.

Video posted online showed ICE agents chasing after some of the workers as they fled the fields.

It is unclear how many people were detained during the operation.

Sen. Alex Padilla of California was forcibly removed from a press conference with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at a federal building in Los Angeles Thursday morning.

While Noem was speaking, Padilla apparently tried to interrupt the press conference.

He took a few steps toward the podium when officers grabbed him and forcibly shoved him out of the room, as seen in video. He can be heard shouting "hands off" as he was removed.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem spoke at a press conference on Thursday morning, but her remarks were interrupted when it appeared California Senator Alex Padilla was kicked out.

Padilla was detained by the Secret Service with the assistance of FBI uniformed police, senior law enforcement sources told ABC News. He was detained, but not arrested, according to those sources.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom reacted to the incident in a post on X, calling it "outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful."

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass also posted and said Padilla's removal was "absolutely abhorrent."

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