Vice President JD Vance, visiting Los Angeles on Friday, vowed a continued military presence in the area, despite acknowledging the “rioting has gotten a lot better” in recent days.
Vance visited Los Angeles on June 20 to tour a multi-agency Federal Joint Operations Center and a Federal Mobile Command Center and meet with Marines amid the Trump administration’s continued and ramped-up immigration enforcement operations in the area.
Speaking to reporters following his tour, Vance lambasted Gov. Gavin Newsom and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, accusing them of having “actively encouraged illegal migration into this community, strained public services (and) strained law enforcement.”
“What a great American city L.A. is, and what a great tragedy it is that we’ve allowed illegal immigration and rioting to destroy one of the great gems of the American family,” Vance said.
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