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- Los Angeles Times
Immigration enforcement sparks outrage, protests in L.A. — but how many arrests?
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's immigration raids throughout Los Angeles and surrounding counties have been splashed all over television and social media feeds for nearly a month. There were the two women nabbed outside the Airport Courthouse on La Cienega Boulevard on Tuesday after a hearing in a local criminal case. There was the raid at a Hollywood Home Depot on June 19, in which crews of armed, mostly masked agents converged on a parking lot, blocking gates and surrounding the laborers and vendors. For all the attention created and fear induced, the results of the operations remained opaque — until recently, when numbers on the actual arrests were released by Homeland Security. My colleague Andrea Castillo provided the figures, which offer new insights into the size and scope of the operations. From June 6 to June 22, enforcement teams arrested 1,618 immigrants for deportation in Los Angeles and surrounding regions of Southern California, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The 'area of responsibility' for the Los Angeles field office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement includes the L.A. metropolitan area and the Central Coast, as well as Orange County to the south, Riverside County to the east and up the coast to San Luis Obispo County. As immigration arrests have occurred across Southern California, demonstrators have protested the federal government's actions and bystanders have sometimes confronted immigration officers or recorded their actions. During the same time span, 787 people have been arrested for assault, obstruction and unlawful assembly, a Homeland Security spokesperson said. Homeland Security did not respond to requests for information on how many of those arrested had criminal histories, or for a breakdown of those convictions. Figures about the Los Angeles operation released by the White House on June 11 indicated that about one-third of those arrested up until that point had prior criminal convictions. My colleague Rachel Uranga reported that from June 1 to 10, ICE data show that 722 people were arrested in the Los Angeles region. The figures were obtained by the Deportation Data Project, a repository of enforcement data at UC Berkeley Law. A Times analysis found that 69% of those arrested during that period had no criminal conviction and 58% had never been charged with a crime. The median age of someone arrested was 38, and that person was likely to be a man. Nearly 48% were Mexican, 16% were from Guatemala and 8% from El Salvador. Democrats and immigrant community leaders argue that federal agents are targeting people indiscriminately. Despite the chaotic nature of the raids and resulting protests 1,618 arrests by Homeland Security in Southern California over more than two weeks averages out to more than 90 arrests per day — a relatively small contribution to the daily nationwide goal of 3,000. But perhaps more potent than the arrests, advocates say, is the fear that those actions have stoked. For more info, check out the full article. Immigration raids, arrests and policy Los Angeles-area fires Crime, courts and policing Get wrapped up in tantalizing stories about dating, relationships and marriage. Have a great weekend, from the Essential California team Kevinisha Walker, multiplatform editorAndrew J. Campa, reporterKarim Doumar, head of newsletters How can we make this newsletter more useful? Send comments to essentialcalifornia@ Check our top stories, topics and the latest articles on
Los Angeles Times
28-02-2025
- Politics
- Los Angeles Times
Mass confusion over ‘mass deportations'
Good morning. Here's what you need to know to start your day. Despite all the hype and fanfare, the Trump administration's recent immigration sweeps in Los Angeles and other Democratic-led cities don't appear to be close to the 'mass deportations' that President Trump has vowed to carry out. At least so far. I'll be honest. It can be hard staying on top of all the news coming out of the White House, so this morning we'll take a quick look at three stories from my colleagues at The Times that help give a sense of what is going on with the president's immigration plans, particularly when it comes to California. Only 12 people were detained during a weekend immigration sweep in the Los Angeles area Federal agents had been planning to carry out a 'large scale' sweep in Los Angeles County by the end of the month, according to an internal document reviewed by my colleagues James Queally and Brittny Mejia. But immigration raids carried out on Sunday resulted in just a dozen people being detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, a source told my colleagues Rachel Uranga, Keri Blakinger, Ruben Vives and Jessica Garrison. Officers at the detention center had been asked to prepare for up to 120 new bookings from the weekend raids, my colleagues report. 'We are hearing they aren't getting the numbers they want,' a source familiar with the situation told The Times. Officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement would not say whether any special operations had taken place or release arrest figures for the day. The Trump administration wants undocumented immigrants to register The administration this week announced a plan to make undocumented immigrants ages 14 and older to register and provide their fingerprints to the government, my colleagues Rachel Uranga and Andrea Castillo report. Those who don't comply could face fines or misdemeanor prosecution, but it's unlikely those penalties will motivate widespread registration. The move appears to be designed to push undocumented immigrants to leave on their own. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week launched a multimillion-dollar ad campaign encouraging those here without status to 'self-deport.' A three-day raid in Kern County offers a glimpse into an 'emboldened' immigration enforcement An early January raid in a rural stretch of Kern County may give us an idea of what immigration enforcement could look like under President Trump, my colleagues Rebecca Plevin, Andrea Castillo and Rachel Uranga report. The raid was conducted by a U.S. Border Patrol chief agent who 'went rogue,' three former officials with the Biden administration told my colleagues. The timing of the raid — before Trump's inauguration — seemed to be a play to 'show that there was a new boss coming and that that's where their loyalties lay,' one former official said. Nearly 80 immigrants living in the country illegally were arrested, including a child rapist, Border Patrol officials said. The agency has not specified how many of the immigrants detained had criminal records. Advocates on the scene, meanwhile, said the operation indiscriminately targeted Latino farmworkers commuting from the fields along California Route 99 and day laborers soliciting work in the parking lots of big box stores. They estimate close to 200 people were detained. ACLU attorneys have since sued the head of the Department of Homeland Security and Border Patrol officials, alleging the raid amounted to a 'fishing expedition' and violated protections afforded by federal law and the U.S. Constitution. 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