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At Least 140 People Kidnapped in the 10 Days Leading up to Christmas Eve

The data comes from community watch teams and rapid responders. This is the minimum number we’re able to confirm and doesn’t include all arrests and kidnappings, such as at ICE-Check In appointments, etc.

An ICE officer coordinates with other officials during an enforcement operation in San Antonio Feb. 5.

|usicegov

Over the last 10 days I’ve been tracking activity over Southern California as best as I can. HSI, ICE and Border Patrol have been exceedingly active between last Sunday and today, December 23rd, as well as being more violent. ICE agents have been involved in at least three car accidents. I used to report on 80-or-so kidnappings a month when I first started tracking ICE activity months ago. That would soon turn to reporting over one hundred a month.

In the last 10 days alone, there have been at least 141 people kidnapped all over Southern California, including Ventura County, Santa Barbara County, Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Bernardino County, Riverside County, and San Diego County. I’ve compiled it by city in alphabetical order below.

Reported kidnappings from December 14th to December 23rd:

Los Angeles County: At least 44 people

Orange County: At least 29

San Bernardino County: At least 26

Ventura County: At least 18

Riverside County: At least 14

San Diego County: At least 6

Santa Barbara County: At least 3

  • Antelope Valley: 1
  • Arcadia: 2 
  • Anaheim: 6
  • Bloomington: 2
  • Carlsbad: 1
  • Camarillo: 1
  • Carson: 2
  • Cathedral City: 1
  • Corona: 2
  • El Monte: 7
  • Fillmore: 10
  • Fontana: 3
  • Garden Grove: 7
  • Harbor City: 1
  • Huntington Beach: 3
  • Indio: 3
  • La Puente: 11
  • La Quinta: 3
  • Lake Forest: 2
  • Lancaster: 3
  • Long Beach: 2
  • Los Angeles: 2
  • Mecca: 2
  • Montclair: 1
  • Ojai: 2
  • Ontario: 1
  • Palmdale: 11
  • Palm Springs: 2
  • Rancho Cucamonga: 5
  • Rialto: 1
  • Santa Barbara: 3
  • San Bernardino: 10
  • San Diego: 6
  • San Juan Capistrano: 1
  • Santa Ana: 7
  • South Gate: 1
  • Simi Valley: 1
  • Stanton: 1
  • Temple City: 1
  • Thousand Oaks: 4
  • Upland: 3
  • Ventura: 1
  • Westminster: 2
  • Wilmington: 1

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