Los Angeles and other California counties were asked Thursday to provide the names of all undocumented inmates in their jail systems to the U.S. Justice Department.

The requests were issued to Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna and other sheriffs who are leading major law enforcement agencies, asking for the detailed information on what kind of crimes the undocumented inmates have committed and when they would be released from jail.

“Far too many of those illegal aliens have gone on to commit crimes on American soil, including rapes, murders, and other violent crimes,” the Trump administration said in a statement Thursday. “Today’s data requests are designed to assist federal immigration authorities in prioritizing the removal of illegal aliens who committed crimes after illegally entering the United States.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi said she looks forward to working with California’s sheriffs with the department adding that it hopes the sheriffs will “voluntarily” produce the requested information.

The Justice Department added that it is willing to use subpoenas and other methods to obtain the data. 

While the Trump administration had initially said immigration enforcement operations are targeting undocumented people with serious convictions, NBC News has reported, among 185,00 people arrested by federal agents between October 2024 and June 2025, 2.2% of them were were convicted or arrested for serious crimes like murder and sexual assaults. 42% had no criminal history in the U.S.

NBC Los Angeles reached out to LA County Sheriff Robert Luna for comment.

In the Los Angeles area, nearly 2,800 undocumented immigrants were detained by federal agents last month as an intense ICE offensive kicked off on June 6.

The Department of Homeland Security said 2,792 undocumented immigrants were arrested in the LA area with the most arrests happening between June 6 and June 22.

The first two weeks of the operations ended with 1,618 arrests while an additional 1,174 people were taken into federal custody in the last week of June and first week of July.

The figures were unprecedentedly high compared to the month of May when over 850 arrests were made according to federal data obtained by the University of California Berkeley.