Nearly 3,000 people have been arrested since the beginning of June, more than three times the number in previous months this year.
The number of arrests by the Department of Homeland Security in the Los Angeles region has spiked over the last month as the Trump administration has deployed hundreds of agents and military members to crack down on the area.
Since the beginning of June, homeland security agents and officers have arrested nearly 2,800 undocumented immigrants in the Los Angeles area, according to the agency. The previous monthly high for immigration arrests in the Los Angeles area by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2025 was just over 850 arrests in May, according to data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the Deportation Data Project at the law school at the University of California, Berkeley.
The sweeping enforcement campaign in the region has sent chills through immigrant communities. Many neighborhoods, once vibrant and bustling with foot traffic and street vendors, have seen their sidewalks and parks empty out. The economic impact can be measured in open barber chairs and empty restaurant booths. The pews in many churches in Latino areas have appeared eerily spacious during Mass on Sundays.
“This isn’t about violent criminals — they’re pulling up to chase people through Home Depot parking lots, summer camps and carwashes,” Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement. “These reckless, unlawful raids are fueled by racial profiling that has driven fear in communities, tearing families apart, crushing entire sectors of the economy because people are afraid to go to work and flying in the face of American democratic values.”
D.H.S. officials said this week that they had no intention of letting up on aggressive enforcement efforts.
