L.A. County moves to carve out 'ICE-free' zones following immigration raid violence
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After escalating incidents of violence involving federal agents taking part in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, officials are looking to create “ICE-free” zones in L.A.County.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to bar immigration enforcement officers from county-owned spaces.Lindsay Horvath, the District 3 supervisor, announced the motion to establish county property as “U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement-free” zones, prohibiting agents from staging, processing or operating in those areas.“Los Angeles County will not allow its property to be used as a staging ground for violence caused by the Trump administration,” Horvath said at the Tuesday Board of Supervisors meeting.The motion instructs county counsel to draft an ordinance for board consideration within 30 days.
The Times reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment but did not receive a response by publication.Since June 6, when immigration enforcement officials descended on the region — raiding four businesses including a fast-fashion warehouse in downtown Los Angeles and detaining dozens — to the first month of 2026, Horvath said, “federal immigration enforcement has too often escalated into extreme violence.”“Our federal government is freely, without cause, murdering its own citizens in broad daylight,” she said, “in front of witnesses and cameras.”The action comes after multiple incidents of violence in California as well as last week’s fatal shooting in Minnesota of 37-year-old Renee Good by a federal immigration agent, which spurred an outcry across the country.
Good, a mother of three, has been portrayed by government officials as a domestic terrorist who tried to run down an agent with her vehicle.State and local officials in Minneapolis have rejected those claims.
On Friday in Southern California, a 21...