Nithya Raman was elected to fix LA. Her first move should infuriate voters

Nithya Raman was elected to fix LA — not to bring more conflict to the streets of the city.Yet her first act as mayor-elect was to join an absurd anti-ICE protest at a hospital this weekend.Left-wing activists created the false impression that ICE agents had raided a hospital.

Nothing like that happened — in fact, it was closer to the opposite, as anti-ICE activists tried to invade an emergency room.What really took place was that ICE agents brought a detainee to the hospital for medical attention.They weren’t raiding the hospital, at all; they were trying to provide aid.

They were doing their humanitarian duty.  The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.Please provide a valid email.

By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.Never miss a story But when word got around that there were ICE agents at the hospital, a mob gathered outside.

That’s when ICE blocked access to the facility, temporarily — both for the safety of its agents and the safety of those inside the hospital, including medical patients.Here’s how Mayor-elect Raman described what happened: “ICE agents were obstructing emergency room entry and detained two US citizens.” She left the false impression that ICE not only raided the hospital, but also targeted citizens instead of illegal immigrants.As LA’s top federal prosecutor, Bill Essayli, made clear, the two citizens who were detained were activists who allegedly assaulted a federal officer.So if Raman and her mob had let the ICE agents do their job and provide medical care to someone in their custody, no one would have been arrested at all.The protesters demanded to know why the hospital cooperated with ICE — as if doctors should have turned the patient away.Not to be outdone, defeated LA Mayor Karen Bass also chimed in to condemn ICE, omitting the fact that they had been at the hospital to help someone they had detained.It ...