At a news conference Thursday, Mayor Karen Bass made a startling claim.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had appeared at a homeless shelter that day, among other sensitive locations in Los Angeles, she said.
But what actually happened at the Whitsett West Tiny Home Village in North Hollywood remains murky. The shifting narratives reflect the anxiety of Angelenos amid ICE raids targeting immigrants at Home Depots, churches and retail centers.
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According to Laura Harwood, Hope the Mission’s deputy chief program officer, people in a car tried to get access to the tiny home village on Thursday afternoon, telling security guards that they were American citizens who wanted to see how their taxpayer dollars were being used. The guards did not admit the visitors, who were wearing civilian clothes.
“This is a really unusual situation. This really doesn’t happen,” Harwood said.
Other employees saw some men looking into the complex from different sides and taking pictures.
A worker at the tiny home village, who requested anonymity because he has family members who are undocumented, told The Times that he was returning from lunch when he spotted two DHS SUVs with tinted windows down the block.
So it seems that ICE thugs probably were casing out the homeless shelter; they just haven’t yet gotten around to raiding it.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-13/ice-raid-homeless-shelter-rumor-bass