According to a well-known immigration rights group, the vast majority of communities attacked by federal agents were Latino.
The Heat Map of Immigration Enforcement Measures No. 471 reported to its LA Rapid Response Network (LARRN) in Los Angeles County from June 6 to July 20.
“This is just a report we were able to verify through responders,” said Jorge-Mario Cabrera, director of communications at Chirla. “This does not mean the only number of events in these areas.”
Cabrera suspects Chirla has captured one-third of the law enforcement activities carried out across the county.
During the same period, of 1,677 calls for law enforcement activities in the area that Chirla claimed were unconfirmed, 1,500 of which reported the presence of armed personnel, and 389 reported witnesses random arrests of community members.
The regions with the largest number of law enforcement actions reported to Chirla:
San Fernando Valley (Panorama) – 22 Actions
Pico Rivera – 18 actions
Silver Lake Echo Park – 15 Actions
Bell Garden – 14 Actions
Hollywood – 9 actions
Vernon – South Los Angeles – 8 Actions
Pico/Union-Downtown Los Angeles- 8 Actions
Little Tokyo – Los Angeles – 7 Actions
Grassle Park – 7 Actions
South Gate – 7 Actions
Chirla’s analysis shows that of the five highest number of immigration enforcement zip codes, 76% of the population is Latino.
Panorama City reported 22 enforcement actions, the highest of each postal code analyzed. Their population is 42% Latino and immigrants are 38.2%.
“The blatant racial profile of the Trump administration is clearly visible,” Chirla executive director Annelica Salas said in a press release. “The areas where people of color live and work, including the Greater Latino Hub, are racially constructed and targeted. This military federal immigration enforcement operation is a surgical attack designed to cause panic and confusion and release terror near us.”
The ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not respond to the New York Times request for comment. The agency has opposed the claims of racial profiles in the past.
A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security wrote in a statement that any such allegations are “disgusting and absolutely false” and that “this kind of smear is intended to demonize and demonize our brave Bingbing law enforcement.”
Chirla’s analysis is not a comprehensive consideration of the raids carried out in Los Angeles. The Department of Homeland Security has not issued law enforcement measures or the number of locations. It reported that when operations began between June and early July, the Ice and Border Patrol arrested 2,792 illegal foreigners in the Los Angeles area.
“The map shows they are not going to wealthy white communities,” Cabrera said. “They went to places where people of color can be picked up randomly.”
The report comes during a period of widespread attention to racial profiling in immigration policy.
The New York Times report shows that Los Angeles residents, especially Latinos with lower skin tones, expressed concerns about being targeted by ice sheet agents, and even American citizens were attacked.
Chirla was one of the groups suing DHS on July 2, claiming that their arrests and detention in Los Angeles and its surrounding counties are illegal and have racial targets.
“The great majority of the persons who were stopped and arrested in the attack have not yet been directed at the word in any meaningful sense unless their skin color and occupation,” the plaintiff wrote in the lawsuit.
U.S. District Court Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong ruled that they were in favor, writing that DHS and ICE may not use obvious race or race, speak Spanish or a person’s occupation to justify arrest or detention.
The Trump administration is trying to lift these restrictions.
