Good morning. It’s Friday, June 12. You can expect another hot, bright day that verges on unpleasant in the afternoon, touching the 90s in the Valley.
And a quick note: In yesterday’s newsletter, the link to Pablo Goldstein’s excellent guide to World Cup parking was unfortunately broken. Read it here.
How did the 2025 ICE raids in L.A. compare to the same period under Biden?
Downtown Los Angeles was a frequent site of large-scale protests during the Trump administration’s campaign of ICE raids in 2025. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
For 40 days last summer, federal agents carried out a concentrated campaign of arrests across the Los Angeles region — raiding businesses, homes, and public spaces and bringing about one of the most chaotic and, for many residents, terrifying periods in recent Los Angeles history.
But amid the sometimes-violent confrontations between federal officials and protesters, and the seemingly ad hoc sweeps at Home Depots and car washes across the vast region, it was nearly impossible to measure in real time how many people were being arrested and deported. (The raid surge began on June 6 and ended July 15, when the Trump administration pulled 2,000 National Guard members from the region and daily ICE arrests fell significantly.)
Now, however, thanks to Freedom of Information Act requests from the Deportation Data Project, we have documentation of the number of arrests and deportations that resulted from those raids — about 3,000 people were arrested in the larger Los Angeles area region, and about three quarters of them were deported. The data also reveals surprising contrasts between Trump’s immigration enforcement in the Summer of 2025 and how the Department of Homeland Security operated in Los Angeles under President Biden.
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