L.A. City Councilwoman Imellda Padilla Asks the LAPD to Tip Off Illegal Aliens Before ICE Raids Happen

Padilla: “Can we use technology, like AI technology, to create a situation where your department can identify, hey, there’s agents, non-City of L.A., in a neighboring town. Everyone go on alert in a way where you can support our business community and our immigrant community to know that it’s time. That’s something related to the lack of due process, the lack of warrants is about to hit our town. I’m asking a —”
UNKNOWN MALE: “I’m not sure what you’re asking me.”
Padilla: “— creativity question here. What can your department do to do more to warn us, to warn the business community that outside of our L.A. borders, coming in from Inglewood, coming in from Antelope Valley, I don’t know, you can warn us so that we can warn our folks in the spirit of your loyalty to the City of Los Angeles?”
UNKNOWN MALE: “So you’re asking me to warn you about an enforcement action being taken by another agency before it happens?”
Padilla: “Yeah.”
UNKNOWN MALE: “Yeah, we — we can’t do that.”
Padilla: “Why not?”
UNKNOWN MALE: “That — that would be obstruction of justice. You may want to talk to the city attorney about that.”