The raid resulted in little more than an empty park and increased tensions between the federal government and Los Angeles’s mayor.

A visibly angry Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Monday blasted the Trump administration's continued immigration enforcement push throughout the city amid reports of a large-scale operation near downtown.

U.S. military troops and federal immigration officers made a mighty but brief show of force Monday at MacArthur Park dubbed the “Ellis Island of the West Coast” as the community hub of a largely immigrant neighborhood in Los Angeles.