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MacArthur Park raid’s a direct strike on Mexico’s vile cartel pipeline

Today’s Operation Free MacArthur Park dismantled a massive fentanyl ring feeding LA’s most notorious open-air drug market.

Agents raided an alleged fortified South LA stash house, and a Calabasas mansion, seizing nearly 65 pounds in total of the deadliest street poison in America.

This was no minor bust. It was a direct strike against the cartel pipeline terrorizing MacArthur Park’s Alvarado Street corridor.

Less than a year ago, when federal agents, including ICE, targeted the same park’s MS-13 gangbangers and open-air markets, Mayor Karen Bass rushed to the scene to condemn the operation in the most inflammatory terms imaginable.

She called it “outrageous and un-American,” a “military-style operation designed to strike fear in the heart of our city.” She described the scene as “a city under siege, under armed occupation” and declared, “It’s the way a city looks before a coup.” Bass demanded agents “leave right now because this is........

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