ABC’s Raddatz fact-checks LA mayor on Trump’s profitable border insurance policies

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ABC Information correspondent Martha Raddatz hit the Los Angeles mayor with a shocking fact-check on the success of President Donald Trump ’s immigration agenda on Sunday.

After airing an interview that she had with Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, Raddatz disputed her declare that Trump’s immigration crackdown hasn't been profitable.

"And no matter they’re doing is actually working on the border itself," the reporter mentioned on ABC Information, responding to Bass’ take.

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ABC Information correspondent Martha Raddatz admitted on-air Sunday that the Trump administration's immigration insurance policies have been efficient. (REUTERS/Jim Bourg)

The community aired a phase of the interview the place Raddatz requested the mayor about Trump's use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain unlawful immigrants within the main California metropolis.

"Los Angeles is a metropolis of immigrants, 3.8 million folks, and about 50% of our inhabitants is Latino," Bass mentioned. "And so, when the raids began, worry unfold. Worry unfold like a virus across the whole county."

Raddatz adopted up, asking, "Is there something good you assume the administration has finished in these six months on the border?"

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LA Mayor Karen Bass has been extremely crucial of President Trump's immigration agenda in latest months. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)

The mayor replied by saying that the administration did effectively when responding to the L.A. fires that ravaged the county close to the beginning of 2025.

"[But] in the event you ask me, is there something that they've finished good by way of immigration? I don’t know, I don’t assume so. I believe that the perspective has been punitive, has been, ‘Let’s make it as depressing as doable in order that these folks don’t come,'" Bass mentioned.

Following the interview clip, Raddatz disputed Bass’ assertion, saying that the Trump administration’s crackdown has produced dramatic outcomes on the U.S. southern border.

"We had been down on that border, and it's dramatically, dramatically totally different than it was a yr in the past," she declared.

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As U.S. Customs and Border Safety reported earlier this month , June 2025 noticed the bottom variety of southern border crossings in U.S. historical past.

Nationwide, there have been 25,228 CBP encounters, the bottom month-to-month quantity the company has recorded, together with a "historic low" of 8,024 apprehensions. Encounters embrace authorized ports of entry, whereas apprehensions are arrests of these coming into the US illegally.

The Biden administration, however, noticed document numbers of unlawful border crossings throughout its time period. Dec. 2023 was the "worst month for encounters of inadmissible aliens on the southern border in U.S. historical past – 251,178," The Heritage Basis’s Border Safety and Immigration Middle senior analysis fellow Simon Hankinson wrote final week.