WATCH: Anti-Trump ABC Host Shuts Down Liberal Mayor, Defends Border Policies

It takes a special kind of separation from reality for liberal reporters to correct the statements of far-left Democratic politicians eager to blame President Donald Trump for one thing or another.

But that’s exactly what happened to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who found herself on the receiving end of fact-checking by ABC News’ Martha Raddatz after the Democrat tried to argue that nothing positive has come out of President Trump’s first six months managing the country’s immigration crisis.

For weeks, her city was an epicenter of clashes between immigration authorities and protestors outraged over the mass arrest and deportation of illegal immigrants. In response, the Trump administration deployed thousands of Marines and members of the National Guard to patrol L.A. streets for weeks.

“Is there anything good you think the administration has done in these last six months at the border?” Raddatz asked the Democrat.

Instead of immediately answering the question, Bass pivoted to federal disaster relief following the Palisades fires.

“I will heap praise on the administration for the first six months in Los Angeles with the fires. If you ask me if there’s anything good that they have done in terms of immigration, I don’t know. I don’t think so.”

Continuing on, Bass stated, “I think that the viewpoint has been punitive, has been let’s make it as miserable as possible so that these people don’t come.”

Back in the studio, Raddatz sharply contrasted Bass with her own view about the status of America’s immigration system.

“Whatever they’re doing is certainly working at the border itself. We were down on that border and it is dramatically, dramatically different,” she told viewers on “This Week” Sunday.

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Illegal border crossings have plummeted 72% since Trump took office, a culmination of reforms including the reinstatement of the Remain in Mexico ” policy, erecting more physical barriers, and streamlining deportation protocols, including offering financial incentives for illegal immigrants to self-deport.

Some of those changes came about through the passage of the Build the Wall Act of 2025, which rerouted over $8 billion in federal COVID relief money to construct approximately 187 miles of new border wall, according to the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency.

Passage of the Big, Beautiful Bill also injected hundreds of billions of dollars into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, where Acting Director Todd Lyons is now tasked with hiring an additional 10,000 agents to assist with raids across the country. Some ICE officers have been subject to doxxing, or the public sharing of their names and addresses, as well as the schools their children attend, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Despite protestors and deranged gunmen opening fire on them, ICE and Border Patrol agents have managed to slow illegal crossings to a trickle. The White House reported in June that not even one illegal immigrant was paroled into the U.S. over the past month, marking a watershed moment in illegal immigration enforcement.

The number of illegal crossings intercepted by authorities in May was down 93% compared to the same month a year prior, according to the NY Post.

Critics of Mayor Bass called for her arrest earlier this month after she appeared to obstruct a federal immigration raid in L.A.