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As President Donald Trump marks six months into his second term, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass told ABC News’ “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz that the administration’s immigration crackdown has not only sparked protests, but fear among the city’s residents.

“Los Angeles is a city of immigrants — 3.8 million people, and about 50% of our population is Latino. And so when the raids started, fear spread,” Bass said.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids started in Los Angeles early June, prompting demonstrations that at times turned violent. While Trump’s deportation push was initially said to be centered around undocumented immigrants with criminal records, an ABC News analysis of new data shows that in recent weeks, the Trump administration has arrested an increasing number of migrants with no criminal convictions.

Since then, farmers, business owners and immigrant advocacy groups have, like the mayor, said that many residents have been afraid to leave their homes for fear of deportation, affecting the workforce, food supply and the culture of the city. Bass said that the restaurant the interview took place in, located in the predominantly Latino Boyle Heights neighborhood of east Los Angeles, was typically bustling. But now, it — and the neighborhood overall — can feel like a ghost town.

“It’s not just the deportation. It’s the fear that sets in when raids occur, when people are snatched off the street,” Bass said. “Even people who are here legally, even people who are U.S. Citizens, have been detained. Immigrants who have their papers and were showing up for their annual immigration appointment were detained when they showed up doing exactly what they were supposed to be doing.”

She criticized ICE for agents for executing enforcement operations without their affiliation being prominently displayed.

“Masked men in unmarked cars, no license plate, no real uniforms, jumping out of cars with rifles, and snatching people off the street, leading a lot of people to think maybe kidnappings were taking place,” Bass said. “How do you have masked men who then say, ‘Well, we are federal officials,’ with no identification?”

Raddatz noted that administration says those agents do that because “there have been threats… [and] doxing.”

“We have a Los Angeles police department that has to deal with crime in this city every single day. And they’re not masked. They stay here,” Bass said. “The masked men parachute in, stay here for a while, and leave. And so you enter a profession like policing, like law enforcement? I’m sorry, I don’t think you have a right to have a mask and snatch people off the street.”

Bass also touched on the continued presence of federal troops in the city. In response to those protests in early June, Trump deployed the National Guard and active-duty Marines to Los Angeles after protesters clashed with police. Some protestors threw rocks, fireworks and other objects at police, according to reports, before the arrival of federal troops.

Trump signed a memorandum in June saying the National Guard was deployed to address lawlessness in Los Angeles. The California National Guard’s 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team posted on X that its objective was to protect federal protesters and personnel.

In her interview with ABC News, Bass denounced the violence as “terrible,” but said it did not “warrant military intervention.”

“It did not warrant the Marines coming into our city with basically no real mission, but just to show a force,” Bass said.

While the number of National Guard members in the city has been cut roughly in half, Bass said that their objective has not changed since they first arrived — and argued they’re presence is still not necessary.

“If you drive by our two federal buildings, you will see them standing out there. But there’s nothing going on in those federal buildings. So in my opinion, we are misusing taxpayers’ dollars, and we are misusing our troops,” she said.

While she disagreed strongly with the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, Bass said she appreciated the help the administration gave Los Angeles during the massive January wildfires.

“Well, I will heap praise on the administration for the first six months in Los Angeles with the fires. If you ask me, is there anything that they have done good in terms of immigration? I don’t know. I don’t think so,” she said. “I think that the viewpoint has been punitive, has been let’s make it as miserable as possible so that these people don’t come.”

Bass said that she is still willing to “work” with the White House, noting both the Olympics and World Cup coming to the city over the next few years.

“How does this end?” Raddatz asked. “How do you see the next six months, the next two years for immigrants in your city?”“Well, I am just hoping that this reign of terror ends. I’m hoping that the military leaves, because they were never needed here to begin with. I’m hoping that we can get back to normal. I’m hoping that the next time I come to this restaurant, that it will be filled, because people won’t be afraid to come here,” Bass said.

President Donald Trump will continue to push the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” as Senate Republicans try to meet Trump’s Fourth of July deadline for passage.

On Saturday, after a vote lasting more than four h

After a bloc of four conservative “Big Beautiful Bill” holdouts finally voted late on Saturday night to move the legislation in a direction towards final passage, they claimed that negotiations with Republican leaders surrounding deficit reduction and Medicaid changes helped them feel “more comfortable” with its advancement.

“It was a beautiful night for the Big Beautiful Bill,” Sen. Eric Schmitt, a key negotiator during meetings on Saturday, said after the vote.

Still, Sens. Ron Johnson — who flipped his vote, Rick Scott, Cynthia Lummis and Mike Lee did not tell reporters whether they’d support the final bill, even after huddling with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Vice President J.D. Vance, Majority Whip John Barrasso and some others during the over three hour vote.

Most of the four conservatives were tight-lipped about their negotiations with leadership after voting, but Johnson said that they were promised a vote on an amendment that would lower the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage match provided to able-bodied, childless people who are new enrollees to Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.

“We want to preserve Medicaid for disabled children,” Johnson said. “I never had a problem with the House bill in terms of avoiding a massive tax increase, default funding for the border, for defense, the spending reductions they did get. My big beef there is…again, we still have to do so much more, because it’s hard, okay, because it’s such an enormous mess,” he added, blaming years of Democratic policies like Obamacare.

Johnson said that the promised amendment was Scott’s idea.

Lummis and Lee said that talks over their concerns about further deficit reductions and tax cuts help them get to a “yes” vote.

“We had an internal discussion about a strategy to achieve more savings, more deficit reduction,” Lee said after the vote, adding that he’s “more comfortable” now with the bill.

All agreed on the need for “as many tax cuts” and “as much spending clarity” as possible, Lummis said.

“I want to thank Vice President Vance for coming up and President Trump for his help in getting to yes, and we’ve got a good product, and we’re going to promote it and pass it this week,” she said.

ours, the Senate voted to advance the legislation, kicking off a lengthy process that GOP leadership hopes will end in its final passage.

The Supreme Court on Friday handed down a highly-anticipated ruling involving President Donald Trump’s Day 1 executive order to effectively end birthright citizenship.

But many questions remain about how such an order would be carried out on a practical level.

And while the court’s conservative majority limited nationwide injunctions issued by federal judges against the order, the court did not rule on whether the order itself is constitutional.

Still, the decision could lead to a radical reshaping of a legal right to citizenship that’s been long guaranteed by the 14th Amendment — at least in the short term.

Effective immediately, the administration can begin planning for how it would implement an end to birthright citizenship.

Trump’s order itself has a 30-day grace period before taking effect, meaning right now there is no change to birthright citizenship and children born everywhere in the country are still U.S. citizens.

Regulations will need to be drafted and specifics of such an order still need to be addressed: for example, will every pregnant woman in America now need to go to the hospital with a passport or birth certificate?

The White House on Friday had no clear answers when pressed for specifics.

Federal district courts in Maryland, Massachusetts and New Hampshire will soon have to revisit nationwide injunctions issued there in light of the court’s decision and tailor or narrow them to apply only to the plaintiffs who brought these cases.

The plaintiffs were 22 states, immigrant advocacy groups and a number of pregnant noncitizen women.

Challengers to Trump’s executive order will continue to litigate the order on the merits. No court has directly considered the constitutionality of the executive order, though three lower courts have said it would appear to plainly violate the 14th Amendment and there are three longstanding Supreme Court precedents unambiguously upholding birthright citizenship.

But for the remaining 28 states that have not sued, Trump’s attempts to end birthright citizenship could go into effect in as soon as 30 days.

Challengers can and will also fight broad implementation in other ways as it moves forward.

On Friday, one group filed a class action lawsuit seeking broad protection of all noncitizen pregnant women, even those who are not plaintiffs.

In a concurring opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh indicated plaintiffs might also be able to challenge the administration’s citizenship regulations, once issued, under the Administrative Procedures Act.

Attorney General Pam Bondi, though, struggled on Friday to address how exactly administration is planning to implement Trump’s order.

Asked who would be tasked with vetting citizenship (for example, whether it would be nurses or doctors as babies are being born) Bondi only responded: “This is all pending litigation.”

Another reporter asked Bondi, “If you have an undocumented baby, would that baby then be an enforcement priority?”

“The violent criminals in our country are the priority,” Bondi deflected.

What’s next for nationwide injunctions?

More broadly, the administration will likely seek to roll back nationwide injunctions blocking Trump policies in other cases.

Those hearings and decisions will play out in the coming weeks.

“These injunctions have blocked our policies from tariffs to military readiness to immigration to foreign affairs, fraud, abuse and many other issues,” Bondi said on Friday. “The judges have tried to seize the executive branch’s power and they cannot do that. No longer.”

President Trump said similarly as he celebrated the ruling.

“So, thanks to this decision, we can now promptly filed to proceed with these numerous policies and those that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis, including birthright citizenship, ending sanctuary city funding, suspending refugee resettlement, freezing unnecessary funding, stopping federal taxpayers from paying for transgender surgeries and numerous other priorities of the American people,” the president said.

Pete Hegseth, the U.S. secretary of defense, said at a press conference Thursday the media is “undermining the success” of Operation Midnight Hammer in Iran.

“There are so many aspects of what our brave men and women did and, because of the hatred of this press corps, are undermined because your people are trying to leak and spin that it wasn’t successful. It’s irresponsible,” Hegseth said as he addressed the media at the Pentagon.

“It’s an important responsibility and, time and time again, classified information is leaked or peddled for political purposes to try to make the president look bad,” Hegseth continued. “What’s really happening is you’re undermining the success of incredible B-2 pilots and incredible F-35 pilots and incredible refuels and incredible air defenders who accomplish their mission and set back a nuclear program in ways that other presidents would have dreamed. How about we celebrate that?”

President Donald Trump told ABC News on Tuesday morning he is “not happy” with either Israel or Iran after the opening hours of a nascent ceasefire between the two combatants were marred by reported exchanges.

Trump said Iran and Israel both “violated” the ceasefire that he announced late on Monday, in comments made as he departed the White House.

On Wednesday morning, the president and his administration continued to push back on an early intelligence report suggesting that the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities likely only set Tehran’s nuclear program back by months.

The centrifuges at Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility “have suffered a great deal,” International Atomic Energy Agency Director Rafael Grossi said Thursday.

“Given the scale and capacity of the military means used, we can deduce that the centrifuges have suffered a great deal, if [they] have not been destroyed,” Grossi said, originally in French.

When asked if it’s possible that some of the technology or centrifuges at Fordo survived, are still operational or have been moved, Grossi said “it’s a hypothesis,” that can’t be ruled out.

Grossi said while he understands the logic behind Israel and the U.S.’s decision to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, he said he believed “there was a diplomatic path.” Grossi acknowledged Iran was not cooperating in the U.S.-Iran negotiations before military intervention was taken.

“I could never say the solution was [using the] military. I’m not criticizing. It’s not my position to do so,” Grossi said. “Until the day military action was triggered, Iran was not cooperating in the necessary way.”