A California Democrat claimed Wednesday that immigration enforcement actions in the Los Angeles area amount to “domestic terrorism.”

Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove made the remark during an appearance on CNN’s The Arena, accusing the Trump administration of engaging in “domestic terrorism” through its immigration law enforcement efforts.

“I would argue that this is not immigration policy that we’re seeing unfold. This is domestic terrorism,” Kamlager-Dove told host Kasie Hunt before going on to claim, falsely, that Americans do not support Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation raids.

In fact, according to polling released this week, a big majority of Americans not only support President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts, they also back his decision to deploy the military to Los Angeles in response to the attacks on ICE agents.

A recent CBS News poll found that a majority of Americans back Trump’s deportation agenda, giving it a net approval rating of +8. The survey was conducted just before immigration raids and the resulting riots began in the Los Angeles area.

A separate poll by RMG Research, released Wednesday and conducted two days after Trump ordered the deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles, also showed strong public support. According to the findings, 58% of respondents expressed at least general approval of the administration’s efforts to deport undocumented immigrants, while 52% supported the decision to send in the National Guard.

Keilar followed up on Kamlager-Dove’s remark, pressing her on her use of “domestic terrorism.” Hunt asked specifically if the elected lawmaker was referring to “ICE raids” as “domestic terrorism.”

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“What I’m saying is when you have grandmothers taking young children to church or to the grocery store or to a little Korean market like the one that was in my district that was raided; and all of a sudden you see masked individuals with no identification producing no judicial warrants that have names on it, asking no questions, snatching people, putting them in a van, carting them off, detaining them, not informing their parents or family members, not even allowing Congress members to go in and check and make sure that everything is okay, and then deporting them, you have a real problem,” said Kamlager-Dove.

“Yes, I would argue that you are terrorizing communities,” she added.