The arrests of undocumented immigrants have decreased significantly in the Los Angeles region two months after the Trump administration launched its aggressive mass deportation operation, according to new figures published Wednesday by national security.
Federal authorities told Times on July 8 that federal agents had arrested 2,792 undocumented immigrants in the seven counties in the and its surroundings since June 6. National Security updated that number on Wednesday, indicating that less than 1,400 immigrants have been arrested in the region in the last month.
“Since June 6, 2025, ICE and CBP have made a total of 4,163 arrests in the Los Angeles area,” said National Security spokesman, Tricia McLaughlin, in a statement provided to The Times.
Although 1,371 arrests throughout the region of the July 8 remains a much higher figure than any recent month before June, represents a notable fall of the 2,792 arrests during the previous month.
The new figures confirm what many immigration experts suspected: the Trump administration immigration agenda in Los Angeles has hesitated since the federal courts prevented federal agents from arresting people without probable causes to believe they are illegally in the United States.
McLaughlin said Wednesday that the agenda of the National Secretary of National Security Kristi Noem remained the same.
“Secretary Noem unleashed ice and CBP to arrest illegal criminal foreigners, including terrorists, gang members, murderers, pedophiles and sexual predators,” McLaughlin said in a statement on Wednesday. “We will continue to enforce the law and eliminate the worst of the worst.”
Trump administration officials have long kept on criminals. But a few days after the White House Cabinet Deputy Director Stephen Miller announced at the end of May place A new goal of arresting 3,000 undocumented migrants throughout the country a day, federal agents moved in Los Angeles to snatch people from the streets and their workplaces.
The Border Policies Advisor to the White House, Tom Homan, suggested that federal officials adopted the strategy of assaulting streets and workplaces to overcome the jurisdictions of the “sanctuary”, such as Los Angeles, which prevent municipal resources and personnel to be used for immigration application.
“If we cannot arrest them to jail, we will go to the communities,” Homan told CBS news.
But after local protesters recovered to resist and Trump deployed the National Guard and the United States Marines to the city, the administration's ability to increase deportations in Los Angeles received a blow to federal courts.
On July 11, the American district judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, a designated by President Biden, issued a temporary restriction order That prevents federal agents in the south and center of California to point people based on their race, language, vocation or location without reasonable suspicions that they are illegally in the United States.
That decision was confirmed Last Friday by the 9th Court of Appeals of the United States Circuit. It is likely to be appealed to the Supreme Court.
“If, as the defendants suggest, they are not carrying out stops that lack reasonable suspicions,” the panel wrote, “they can barely say that they are irreparably damaged by a court order aimed at preventing a subset of stops not backed by reasonable suspicions.”
It is difficult to know if July numbers indicate a permanent change in tactics.
On Tuesday, the border patrol agent carried out a raid in the Home Depot in Westlake, arrested 16 people.
“For those who thought that the application of immigration had stopped in southern California, think again,” acting to Us Atty. Bill Essayli posted in X shortly after the raid. “The application of the federal law is not negotiable and there are no sanctuaries of the scope of the federal government.”
The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, said that her office was investigating the matter, but added: “From the video and fixed images, it seems exactly the same as we were seeing before.”
