{"id":404987,"date":"2025-11-26T02:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/404987\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T02:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:43:12","slug":"mayor-gina-ortiz-jones-discusses-north-side-raid-rainbow-crosswalk-removal-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/404987\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones discusses North Side raid, rainbow crosswalk removal order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones joined the KSAT Q&amp;A on Tuesday to discuss a recent North Side raid and the order for the removal of San Antonio\u2019s rainbow crosswalk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">On Nov. 16, a multiple-agency operation left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2025\/11\/18\/what-we-know-about-the-federal-raid-on-the-north-side-tren-de-aragua-link-new-task-force-140-detained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2025\/11\/18\/what-we-know-about-the-federal-raid-on-the-north-side-tren-de-aragua-link-new-task-force-140-detained\/\">more than 150 people<\/a> detained. The Department of Homeland Security said dozens of those arrested were connected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/topic\/Tren_de_Aragua\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/topic\/Tren_de_Aragua\/\">Tren de Aragua<\/a>, a Venezuelan gang.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Jones said she sent a letter to the FBI\u2019s acting chief for additional information on the raid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe have to balance public safety and public trust, right, and that requires transparency,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Jones said the community deserves answers to basic questions, such as how many of those arrested were U.S. citizens or had a criminal record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Jones also commented on the possible legal action that Pride San Antonio mentioned taking regarding the state order for removal of the city\u2019s rainbow crosswalk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">She said that as a \u201cprivate entity,\u201d the organization should be free to exercise their legal rights over the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cAs the chief elected officer in the city, I have a duty to ensure that we are considering all factors in this,\u201d Jones said in regard to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/08\/gov-abbott-directs-txdot-to-enforce-removal-of-all-political-ideologies-from-texas-streets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/08\/gov-abbott-directs-txdot-to-enforce-removal-of-all-political-ideologies-from-texas-streets\/\">possible state and federal funding cut for noncompliance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones joined the KSAT Q&amp;A on Tuesday to discuss a recent North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":404988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7452,46866,5603,191224,191225,7202,7203,46865,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-404987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-gina-ortiz-jones","10":"tag-ksat-qa","11":"tag-lgbtq","12":"tag-north-side-raid","13":"tag-pride-san-antonio","14":"tag-san-antonio","15":"tag-sanantonio","16":"tag-saq","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115613702912550620","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}