Mayor Karen Bass said immigration detentions and a new federal lawsuit were the beginning of “an all out assault on Los Angeles.” L.A. is the “test case,” she said. And

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass spoke at City Hall on Tuesday morning, a day after the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit claiming that the city's sanctuary policies are illegal and "interfere with and discriminate against the Federal Government's enforcement of federal immigration law.

The mayor spoke a day after Trump’s Department of Justice sued the city, saying its sanctuary law hinders the federal government’s fight against illegal immigration.