Arrests of undocumented immigrants have dropped significantly across the Los Angeles region two months after the Trump administration launched its aggressive mass deportation operation, according to new figures released Wednesday by Homeland Security.<\/p>\n
Federal authorities told The Times<\/a> on July 8 that federal agents had arrested 2,792 undocumented immigrants in the seven counties in and around L.A. since June 6. Homeland Security updated that number Wednesday, indicating that fewer than 1,400 immigrants have been arrested in the region in the last month. <\/p>\n \u201cSince June 6, 2025, ICE and CBP have made a total of 4,163 arrests in the Los Angeles area,\u201d Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement provided to The Times. <\/p>\n While 1,371 arrests across the L.A. region since July 8 is still a much higher figure than any recent month before June, it represents a notable drop from the 2,792 arrests during the previous month. <\/p>\n The new figures confirm what many immigration experts suspected: The Trump administration\u2019s immigration agenda in L.A. has faltered since federal courts blocked federal agents from arresting people without probable cause to believe they are in the U.S. illegally.<\/p>\n McLaughlin said Wednesday that Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem\u2019s agenda remained the same.<\/p>\n \u201cSecretary Noem unleashed ICE and CBP to arrest criminal illegal aliens including terrorists, gang members, murderers, pedophiles, and sexual predators,\u201d McLaughlin said in a statement Wednesday. \u201cWe will continue to enforce the law and remove the worst of the worst.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump administration officials have long maintained they are focused on criminals. But a few days after White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller announced in late May he had set<\/a> a new goal of arresting 3,000 undocumented migrants across the country a day, federal agents fanned out across L.A. to snatch people off the streets and from their workplaces.<\/p>\n White House top border policy advisor Tom Homan suggested federal officials adopted the strategy of raiding streets and workplaces to get around \u201csanctuary\u201d jurisdictions, such as Los Angeles, that bar municipal resources and personnel from being used for immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we can\u2019t arrest them in jail, we\u2019ll go out to the communities,\u201d Homan told CBS News<\/a>.<\/p>\n But after local protesters rallied to resist and Trump deployed the National Guard and U.S. Marines to the city, the administration\u2019s ability to ramp up deportations across L.A. was dealt a blow in the federal courts.<\/p>\n On July 11, U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, an appointee of President Biden, issued a temporary restraining order<\/a> that blocks federal agents in southern and central California from targeting people based on their race, language, vocation or location without reasonable suspicion that they are in the U.S. illegally.<\/p>\n