NEW LAPD Chief REFUSES Trump Deportation Orders
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What does the new LAPD chief say about protecting immigrant communities?
LAPD will protect our immigrant community. LAPD officers will not take action to determine a person's immigration status and will not arrest someone for their status. And LAPD will not assist with mass deportations. Los Angeles is a city of immigrants, and I know immigrants are being disparaged right now, but I want the people of Los Angeles to know my viewpoint. Our nation was built by immigrants. In LA uh in LA such an extraordinary city because of the people here from literally all over the world.
That right there was Jim McDonnell. He has now been uh voted to be the next LAPD chief. He previously served as the Los Angeles County Sheriff, and you heard him there saying as he was voted to become the next LAPD chief: quote, I want to be clear to all people of LA, especially our immigrant community, which is feeling uncertainty and fear. This is a city of immigrants. And my job is to serve you. Now, this comes as that the same day that Donald Trump appointed Tom Homan, one of the authors of Project 2025, to be his border czar. Tom Homan previously gloated and bragged about bloody mass deportations that he and Stephen Miller were going to lead. And Tom Homan is known for someone who is at. As extreme as you can be in supporting uh mass deportations, denaturalization.
Um, and we did a video on that earlier today. Let me show you, though, uh, from the press conference of uh Los Angeles Police Department's new chief, Jim McDonnell, what he said during his press conference after being voted on to be the next LAPD chief about mass deportation. and what he sees the role of LAPD in carrying it out, or as he says, he will not follow orders to carry out mass deportations. Here's what. LAPD chief Jim McDonald says, play this clip
hearing impassioned voices from the undocumented community who said they're very fearful of the Trump administration and by extension your new regime. What can you say to them to calm those nerves and and real fear?
Yeah. No, thank you, Laura. That's a that's a great question and and certainly I did hear the passion in there as well as some of people I had spoken with. Uh there's there's a lot of talk uh across the country on what's gonna happen, what what's not gonna happen. But what I can say is here that you know any talk of mass roundups or the police department being involved in that thing, uh we don't do that kind of thing. We would alienate our of much of our our population, much of our our community by doing anything like that. So it would make no sense for us to do that. We have no interest or or or desire to do any of those kind of things. We're here to keep everybody safe in all communities throughout our city.
How did Jim McDonnell become the LAPD chief and what is his background?
And the way we do that is by By nurturing trust, uh building on the relationships we have and making them better, but try and ensure that people understand that when they call the LAPD, there is no additional risk as far as your immigration status. It's all about us getting out there, providing service to you, and doing the best manner that we can possibly.
Then a little bit later in the press conference, LAPD chief Jim McDonnell, you know, also, you know, is discussing the mass deportations. I in my own view, I think he's being very naive here. I think intentionally so, because I'm about to show you the clips of what uh uh Tom Holman is saying and what Donald Trump is going to do. But I just want to show you that at least you have here a uh police department chief in a city made up of immigrants uh saying that he would not carry out any orders to do the mass deportation. Here, play this clip.
And do you anticipate uh pressure from ICE to cooperate with them? Uh you were around back in twenty sixteen. Yeah. And I think
pressure as you might expect there to be. There may be some from the administration, uh, but uh you know, what I've heard are, you know, withholding uh federal grant money or so forth for cities that may not cooperate in that fashion. But we we're we've got our rules, we've got our values, we're gonna move forward the way that we've done, you know, for many, many years now, uh trying to develop and build on that trust that we have with all of our communities.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What does the new LAPD chief say about protecting immigrant communities?
0:00–2:51
2
How did Jim McDonnell become the LAPD chief and what is his background?
2:51–5:48
3
What did the LAPD chief say at his press conference about mass deportations?
5:48–8:10
4
Who is Tom Homan and why is his appointment as Trump’s border czar controversial?
8:10–10:11
5
How might ICE and the federal government pressure the LAPD to cooperate?
10:11–12:25
6
What are the proposed “mass deportation” and denaturalization plans under Project 2025?
12:25–14:24
7
How do recent border‑crossing statistics compare under Biden vs. Trump?
14:24–16:03
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