California took center stage in ICE raids, but other states saw more immigration arrests
Since Federal Migration Raids have risen to California, it has emerged as the symbolic war area of the state administration’s deportation campaign, as President Trump triggered violent protests that pushed Los Angeles to use unity.
However, even when the arrests rose, it was not the central base of California Trump’s anti -immigrant project.
In the first five months of Trump’s second period, California lagged behind the exact red states of Texas and Florida in total arrests. According to a Los Angeles Times, the analysis of federal migration and customs enforcement data Deportation data projectTexas, about a quarter of all the ice arrests nationally – then reported 12,982 in Florida and 8,460 arrests in California.
Even in June, when the masked federal immigration agents were swept from La, when he jumped from bus stops, car wash and parking lots, he saw California, 3,391 undocumented immigrants were arrested – more than Florida, but still half of Texas.
While factoring in the population, California falls to the 27th place in the country with 217 arrests per million – one quarter of Texas’ 864 arrests per million, and a series of states of Florida, Arkansas, Utah, Arizona, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia and Nevada.
The data published after the law of Freedom of Information against the Government excludes the arrests made after June 26 and lacks state details in 5% of the cases. However, it offers the most detailed view of national ice operations.
Immigration experts say that California – California, the birthplace of the most undocumented immigrants in the country and the Chicano movement in the country, is not surprising that the total number of arrests or arrests as a percentage of the population is left behind.
“The figures are secondary to the execution policy of that moment, Aust said Austin Kocher, a professor of geography and research assistant specializing in immigration sanctions at the University of Syracuse.
Some of the higher number of arrest number of Republican sovereign states-especially when measured against the population-is that they are more interested in the past and cooperation with ice. In red states from Texas to Mississippi, local law enforcement officers cooperate with federal agents, or assumes the so -called ice tasks 287 (G) agreements Or by identifying imprisoned immigrants imprisoned and leaving ice to their prisons and prisons.
Indeed, the data is only 7% of the ice arrests in California this year Criminal Foreign ProgramIt is an attempt to identify local law enforcement officers in federal, state and local prisons and prisons.
This is significantly lower than 55% of the arrests in Texas and 46% in Florida are made with prisons or prisons. And other conservative states with a smaller population were further based on the program: 75% of the ice arrests in Alabama and 71% in Indiana took place with prisons and prisons.
“State cooperation has been an important buffer in ice arrests and generally ice operations for years,” said Ariel Ruiz Soto, a senior policy analyst of the Migration Policy Institute. “We have seen that states are willing to cooperate only with ICE, but they also established a 287 (g) agreement with local law enforcement officers, naturally will use a wider application network on the borders of this state.”
While California takes into account some criminal offenses such as serious crimes, it is important enough to share information with information; Texas and Florida are more likely to report crimes that may not be severe, such as small traffic violations.
Nevertheless, even if less than other states in California were arrested, he witnessed one of the most dramatic increases in the arrests in the country.
California ranked 30th in ice arrests per million in February. Until June, the state rose to 10th place.
Between January 20 and June 26, ICE arrested about 8,460 immigrants in California, and an increase of 212% five months before Trump took off. In the same period, it contrasts with a national increase of 159%.
Most of the Ice’s activities in California were hyper -focused on the Great Los Angeles: about 60% of the ice arrests in the state took place in seven districts in La and around Trump in the first five months of Trump. The number of arrests in the Los Angeles region rose from 463 to 2,185 in June in January -an increase of 372%, the second only 432% of New York.
Even if California does not see the most arrests, experts say that the dramatic increase in captures stands out from other places due to public hostility towards official cooperation and immigration agents.
Kocher said, a smaller increase in a very little cooperation place, in a way, more important than seeing an increase in areas with a lot of cooperation, ”he said.
Kocher said that ICE agents should work harder to arrest immigrants such as La or California as “shelter” judicial zones and limiting cooperation with federal immigration agents.
“They really had to get out of his own way,” he said.
Trump management officials have long argued that sacred judicial zones have given them choice but to roll people on the streets.
Shortly after the Trump won the 2024 elections, LA Municipal Assembly unanimously voted to prevent any city resources from being used for immigration, and the incoming border executive consultant Tom Homan threatened an attack.
“If I need to send twice more officers to Los Angeles, that’s what we’re going to do, then what we’re going to do,” Homan said, in his statement to Newsmax.
Ice agents entered communities with the limited cooperation of California prisons, rolling people they suspected of not documented in street corners, factories and farms.
This change in the tactics meant that immigrants with criminal convictions no longer constitute the majority of California ice arrests. Although approximately 66% of the immigrants arrested in the first four months of the year have criminal convictions, this decreased to 30% in June.
The comprehensive nature of the arrests received immediately criticized, which revealed racial profile creation and firm community condemnation.
Some immigrant experts and community activists say that the number of ice arrests in LA is lower than Texas in California and even lower than dozens of states than the population percentage.
“This is because resistance, organized resistance: The people who fight with them in Compton, Bell and Huntington Park in the word, Ron Ron Gochez, a member of Unión Del Barrio Los Angeles, is an independent political group that patrols the neighborhoods to warn the residents of immigration scans.
“They were chased in different neighborhoods we organized,” he said. “When they came to kidnap people, we were able to activate society to surround agents.”
In La, activists toured from 5 am to 23 pm in the streets and seven days a week. They met ice agents in home depot parking lots, warehouses and farms.
“We were doing everything we can to try to keep up with the intensity of the military attack, G Gochez said. “The resistance was strong.… Many times we were able to defend communities successfully and we have removed them from our community.”
The protests encouraged Trump to use national guards and maritime in June in order to protect Federal buildings and personnel. However, the management’s ability to increase arrests hit a barricade on July 11th. That’s when a federal judge He ordered a temporary limitation Undoubtedly, the migrant agents in Southern and Middle California are undoubtedly unlikely to target people based on race, language, profession or location in the United States.
This decision approved Last week by the 9th US Circuit Court. On Thursday, however, the Trump administration filed a petition to the Supreme Court to lift the temporary ban on the patrols and threatened to strengthen the migration laws of immigration officials in the central region of California through each investigation.
The order led to a significant decline in arrests in Los Angeles last month. However, this week, Federal agents raided Van Nuys from Weslake a series of raids in home warehouses.
Trump management officials said that the slowdown of decisions and arrest in July did not point to a permanent change in tactics.
“Sanctuary cities will receive exactly what they don’t want: more agents in communities and more study areas,” HOMAN told journalists Two weeks after blocking the court’s wick patrols. “Why is that? Because they don’t let an agent arrest a bad man in prison.”
Gregory Bovino, Chief of the US Border Patrol Sector, who has leading operations in California, moved quickly video La Mayor Karen Bass told journalists that this experiment failed in Los Angeles. Later, when a crazy drum and bass mixture begins, the federal agents jump into a van and chase people.
“What do you do when you oppose the law and order?” BOVino wrote. “Improvisation, adapt and overcome!”
Ruiz Soto said Trump administration is willing to spend important resources to make California a political battle and test case. Question, at what economic and political cost?
“If they really want to scale and accelerate their deportation, Ru Ruiz Soto said,“ They can go to other places, they can do more safer, faster and more efficiently. ”
