California has been among the hardest-hit states by ongoing federal immigration enforcement. According to data from the Deportation Data Project at the University of California, Berkeley, and obtained by The San Francisco Chronicle. Concretely, roughly 5,500 California residents were deported during the first seven months of 2025, a 78 percent increase from the same period in the previous year.
As federal immigration authorities continue to target communities across the state, officials in Los Angeles County voted this week to declare a state of emergency that would allow local government to provide assistance to residents who have suffered financially as a result of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.
