A study by the Deportation Data Project at UCLA and UC Berkeley School of Law examined ICE arrests in the seven-county Los Angeles field office region, finding arrests surged to about 14,302 in 2025, nearly tripling from 4,684 in 2024, before dropping sharply in early 2026 amid public pressure and policy shifts. Of those arrested from January 2025 through May 2026, about three-quarters were eventually deported, with 62% removed within 60 days and only 7% released from detention, totaling nearly 15,000 deportations. The surge was driven by at-large arrests in neighborhoods, Home Depot parking lots, courthouses, and ICE check-ins across nearly every part of the region, increasingly targeting people without criminal convictions or final removal orders, with arrests of people with no criminal conviction rising more than 3,400% at the peak and jail-to-ICE transfers increasing about 75%. Nearly 300 of those deported were sent to third countries, including Ghana and Eswatini, rather than their countries of citizenship.