New UCLA Report Documents a Year of “Loss and Resistance” as Trump’s Immigration Agenda Transforms Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — Immigration arrests in the Los Angeles area more than tripled during the first year of the second Trump Administration, part of a sweeping escalation that funneled record numbers of people into detention, eroded due process, and spread fear through immigrant communities across Southern California, according to a new report from the Immigrants’ Rights Policy Clinic, part of the Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law.
The report, Loss and Resistance: Los Angeles One Year into Trump’s Immigration Agenda, examines how a flurry of interlocking federal policies—expanding interior enforcement, increasing detention, and reshaping the immigration courts—have built on one another in service of an anti-immigrant agenda that prioritizes increased deportation numbers over following the law. The effects have landed hard in cities like Los Angeles, home to one of the largest immigrant populations in the country.
