Bass called the deployment of the National Guard a "chaotic escalation" of the situation, in a June 8 post to X.

This comes after the Trump administration last week reduced the troops' size by half to 2,000 National Guard members.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Sunday called for an end to what she described as a “reign of terror” in the city, referring to the ongoing masked ICE raids and military presence in the city under the Trump administration.