Rep. Nanette Barragan (D-CA) told CNN host Jake Tapper on Monday that if ICE and the National Guard left the city of Los Angeles, you would see the riots end.

JAKE TAPPER, CNN: Congresswoman Annette Bergen of California, her district in her congressional district includes a community of Paramount, which is just south of Los Angeles. Some protests flared up in Paramount this weekend. Congresswoman, thanks for being here.

I appreciate it. So yesterday, you spoke with Seamus Danabash on State of the Union. You acknowledged that not all the demonstrators have been peaceful, and you said, quote, those are not the people that are coming out to protest immigration.

So who do you think the people who are not peaceful are? Are they outside agitators, as President Trump says?

REP. NANETTE BARRAGAN: They definitely could be. We've certainly heard some could be anarchists, people who are looking for trouble. People are just, you know, in the evenings looking for some trouble to make.

So I don't think those are the people that are out to protest the mass deportations. And that's what you're seeing. You're seeing people angry that you're having mass deportations happening in Los Angeles after months of seeing this administration send ICE agents to hospitals to wait for women to have labor sitting there in the Labor Department to separate their kid and and try to deport the mother to schools to take kids.

And of course, now just rounding up people, there is no targeted enforcement. We know they're going to like Home Depot lots to look for people who are looking for jobs. They're not criminals.

And that is the outrage that you're seeing. And I think that if ICE left, I think if the National Guard left, you would see this all die down. There is a way to do immigration enforcement.

It's been done before. This is just the president's way to escalate things, to cause tension. And I think really to distract what's happening in Washington on all the failures, whether it's the economy tanking, whether the price is going up, whether the millions he's going to take away from health care.

This is the master in a show. And this is what he wanted.

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