Karen Bass
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This amid allegations farmworker activist Cesar Chavez, who died in 1993, sexually abused girls, and the co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America Union, Dolores Huerta, the now 95-year-old telling the New York Times she was pressured and forced to have sex and got pregnant twice.
Bass says she's in touch with the Chavez family and they support the renaming decision.
The board made a decision.
I think that decision was unfortunate.
I don't support the decision.
My opinion is that he should step down.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signs an executive directive prohibiting federal immigration enforcement from using city-controlled property.
The measure mirrors an L.A.
Bass says it also includes instructing LAPD officers to preserve all evidence related to ICE activities and directs the city's planning department to prepare an ordinance to impose fees on property owners who give site control to ICE agents.
Kristen Goodwin, Fox News.
Now, you know, the most extreme example of affordability is homelessness itself.
with over 40,000 unhoused Angelenos and almost half of them sleeping on our streets every night.
This is the consequence of decades of rigid thinking that never built a system capable of meeting the scale of the need.
But since I became mayor, we began moving with urgency.
We broke down silos.
We challenged policies that kept people trapped on our streets.
And we began building a system with one clear goal, and that's ending homelessness, especially street homelessness.