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Between Jan 20th, 2025, and April 1st of this year, a total of 33,282 people have been taken by Department of Homeland Security operations in Southern California.
That breaks down to 16,914 people taken by ICE in Los Angeles and the surrounding six counties, including Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura.
That’s 14,302 arrests in 2025, and 2,612 so far this year, showing a slowdown since Trump got heat for the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Down in San Diego, according to a letter from ICE to Representative Mike Levin, 16,368 people have been arrested there between January 2025 and April 1st, 2026. The three biggest nationalities in that figure include 10,847 Mexicans, 996 Guatemalans, and 429 Colombians.