Los Angeles Families Endure 1 Year of Trauma After ICE Raids Split Households
Updated
Updated · The Guardian · Jul 8
Los Angeles Families Endure 1 Year of Trauma After ICE Raids Split Households
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jul 8
Summary
A year after ICE raids swept Los Angeles, immigrant families are still coping with deportations, detention trauma and long separations that have upended childcare, schooling and household finances.
6 years is how long one family says a green-card petition for a deported father could take, leaving his wife and four US-citizen children in Inglewood to navigate daily life without him.
9 months passed before lawyers won parole back to the US for a disabled man who vanished through ICE custody, was deported to Tijuana and found in a hospital without knowing his family was searching for him.
27 July is the next deportation hearing for another man arrested at a carwash, released after a habeas challenge but barred from working and required to check in with ICE by mobile app.
Across those cases, relatives describe lasting fear, depression and constant monitoring of ICE activity, underscoring how raids continue to reverberate long after arrests end.
Why do families face deportation while their green card petitions, a legal path to residency, are backlogged for years?
A disabled US citizen was wrongfully deported. What systemic breakdown allowed this, and how are vulnerable individuals now protected?
Amidst detainee deaths and hunger strikes, what accountability exists for the conditions inside America's expanding immigration detention centers?
Los Angeles After 10,000 Detentions: The Human, Legal, and Economic Impact of the 2025–2026 ICE Raids
Overview
In July 2026, Los Angeles is still deeply affected by the large-scale ICE raids that began in early 2025 and peaked in June 2025. The city faces ongoing legal battles over federal enforcement tactics, with courts closely examining the actions of immigration authorities. Communities continue to live with fear and uncertainty, but they are also working hard to recover economically and support each other. Local leaders and organizations are providing aid and advocating for justice, showing resilience in the face of lasting trauma and disruption. The struggle for legal rights and community stability remains at the center of Los Angeles’s response.