MEXICO CITY — Greater than half of the Mexican residents detained by U.S. immigration brokers and just lately interviewed by Mexican consular authorities in Los Angeles had been dwelling in the USA for no less than a decade — and greater than one-third had lived in the USA for greater than 20 years.
Nearly one-third of these interviewed had U.S.-born kids.
These are among the many findings of a examine launched Tuesday by Carlos González Gutiérrez, the Mexican consul basic in Los Angeles.
The findings, the consul mentioned, expose as false the widespread notion that a lot of these detained in the course of the Trump administration’s worksite raids had solely just lately crossed the border.
Horse riders make their method alongside Alondra Boulevard in Compton in the course of the Human Rights Unity Journey as ongoing ICE raids happen throughout the Higher Los Angeles space on June 22, 2025.
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“It’s clear that almost all of those folks had made roots on this nation and have been built-in into United States society,” the consul mentioned. “All these operations create concern, create panic.”
Los Angeles County is dwelling to the nation’s largest group of immigrants from Mexico.
The survey outcomes come from 330 detained Mexican residents interviewed from June 6 — when U.S. immigration officers launched an ongoing collection of raids — to July 7.
The people — 309 males and 21 ladies, all adults — have been interviewed at a federal constructing in downtown Los Angeles after being detained “because of operations carried out by varied federal companies,” the consulate mentioned in a information launch.
Ana Banuelos, 43, waves a flag throughout protests in opposition to the immigration raids on the Glass Home farm on July 10, 2025, in Camarillo.
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Not included within the findings have been scores of Mexican residents detained at different federal websites and in the course of the latest raids on the Glass Home hashish services in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.
Of these surveyed, the consulate mentioned, 52% had resided for no less than a decade in the USA, and 36% had resided within the nation for greater than 20 years. Nearly 1 in 3 — 31% — had kids born in the USA.
The detained Mexican residents included within the survey labored in all kinds of occupations, the consulate mentioned, however the largest sectors represented have been automotive washes (16.4%), building (13.3%), factories (13%) and landscaping (11.5%).
“The overwhelming majority are hardworking people who’ve contributed to the financial system of Southern California for years,” the consulate mentioned.
There was no phrase on how lots of the 330 Mexican residents had been deported to Mexico or what number of determined to struggle removing in courtroom.
“Each deportation is devastating for these concerned,” the consul mentioned. “In each case there’s a particular person or household that pays a excessive worth and is emblematic of the excessive human price that’s implicit behind each deportation.”
Diplomats assigned to Mexico’s broad net of consulates throughout the USA are tasked with talking with detained Mexican residents and making an attempt to offer them with authorized and different assist.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has publicly decried the “persecution” of immigrants in the course of the latest U.S. raids, has directed consular authorities to step up their help in mild of the Trump administration’s mass deportation program.
