Acting ICE Director: L.A. Mayor Bass’ Claim That ICE Agents ‘Aren’t Properly Marked’ Is ‘Totally False’

PERINO: “Todd Lyons is acting ICE director. Something that Karen Bass, the mayor of L.A., just said caught my attention. When she said, how do we know that this is an arrest and not a kidnapping? I’ll turn over to you. How would she know?”
LYONS: “Well, I mean, Dana, you can see from all the video too, right? They say that ICE agents, they don’t — they’re not properly marked. You see them in their tactical gear, in their vest, where, you know, you see blatantly see FBI, ATF, ICE, HSI, ERO, whoever is out with us. So the mayor’s claims are just totally false. And what she’s doing is making people afraid of us. If L.A. wasn’t a sanctuary city, we wouldn’t have to go on the streets. If they turn these criminals over to us in a secure setting, we would not be out there. So what the mayor is doing is she’s stoking — stoking the flames of this, and she’s the one that’s making it worse than what it really is.”