ICE arrests in L.A. plummeted in July, new data show
According to the new figures published by Homeland Security on Wednesday, the arrests of undocumented immigrants have fallen significantly in the Los Angeles region two months after the Trump administration launched an aggressive mass deportation operation.
Federal officials told Times that federal agents have arrested 2,792 undocumented immigrants in seven districts since June 6, since June 6. Vatan security updated this number on Wednesday and showed that less than 1,400 immigrants were arrested in the region last month.
“Since June 6, 2025, ICE and CBP have made a total of 4,163 arrests in the Los Angeles region,” The Times said in a statement to The Times. He said.
Since July 8, 1,371 arrests in the LA region is a much higher figure than the last months before June, but it represents a significant decline from 2,792 arrests during the previous month.
New figures confirm that many immigrant experts suspected: The migration agenda of the Trump administration in LA has fell since the federal courts have prevented federal agents from arrest people without a possible reason to believe that they were illegal in the United States.
McLaughlin said on Wednesday that the agenda of the internal security secretary Kristi Noem remained the same.
“Secretary Noem, terrorists, gang members, killers, pedophiles and sexual predators, including the secretary Noem, released ice and CBP to arrest the CBP,” McLawlin said. “We will continue to implement the law and eliminate the worst.”
Trump management officials claim that they have long been focusing on criminals. However, a few days after Stephen Miller, Assistant General Manager of White House, announced that he heard in late May to arrange Federal agents, a new target of arrest of 3,000 undocumented immigrants throughout the country, took off people through the streets and workplaces throughout the streets.
White House upper border policy consultant Tom Homan suggested that Federal officials adopted the strategy of raiding the streets and workplaces to overcome the “shelter” judicial zones such as Los Angeles.
“If we don’t arrest them in jail, we’ll go to communities,” said Homan CBS News.
However, after the local protesters walked to resist and placed the Trump National Guard and US marine pads in the city, the ability of the administration to deportation throughout the federal courts took a blow in the federal courts.
The appointment of President Biden, the US Regional Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah, on July 11, He ordered a temporary limitation This prevents federal agents in the South and Middle California from targeting people according to their races, language, professions or positions without reasoning that they are illegal in the United States.
This decision approved Last Friday 9th by the US Circuit Court. It is likely to appeal to the High Court.
“As the defendants suggest, if they do not make reasonable stops, Pa Panel wrote,“ They cannot claim that they have been irreversible by a precautionary precautionary measure aiming to prevent a stop -out set that is not supported by reasonable suspicion. ”
It is difficult to know whether the July numbers indicate a permanent change in the tactics.
On Tuesday, Border Patrol Patrol Agent raided Home Depot and arrested 16 people.
“Rebey for those who think that immigration sanctions have stopped in Southern California,” he mobilizes. Bill Essayli was released on X shortly after the raid. “The implementation of the federal law can be negotiated and there is no sacred space for the federal government to reach.”
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said that his office examined the issue: “It looks like the same thing we’ve seen before the video and photos.”
