This article uses inflammatory language towards immigrants in an effort to further divide people on the topic. The title is also clickbait, Bass did not use the word illegals to describe the population of migrants in LA. The article tries to blame the overspending in the US budget on providing healthcare(which many would consider an essential right) to immigrants, but fails to mention other hot-button issues of overspending like defense, as well as the recent medicaid cuts to millions of American citizens by the Trump administration. Overall, this storys purpose serves to spark more debate and hate rather than educate or correctly portray what politicians like Karen Bass actually spoke about.