Tom Homan, 7 June 2025

ICE Acting Director Todd M. Lyons issued a statement on the violent June 6 assaults against federal law enforcement officers in Los Angeles:

“Our brave officers were vastly outnumbered, as over 1,000 rioters surrounded and attacked a federal building. It took over two hours for… pic.twitter.com/MDBxI4L4X0

— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) June 7, 2025

… the Los Angeles Police Department to respond, despite being called multiple times. The brave men and women of ICE were in Los Angeles arresting criminal illegal aliens including gang members, drug traffickers and those with a history of assault, cruelty to children, domestic violence, robbery, and smuggling.”

🔎Read our acting director’s full statement in our newsroom.

ICE will continue to enforce all U.S. immigration laws and arrest criminal illegal aliens. We’ll release updates and additional photos related to these anti-ICE riots as they become available.

NEW: Per federal sources, despite local claims, there was no ICE “raid” at a Home Depot in LA today. DHS has a nearby office in Paramount that they are using as a staging area. Protesters found it and began gathering. ICE will conduct targeted enforcement around LA today, serving…

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 7, 2025

… criminal judicial warrants and enforcing final orders of removal/deportation orders.

CBP and Border Patrol have been brought in to provide security and extra bodies, and a handful of agitators have already been arrested today for allegedly interfering with federal agents.

Despite inflammatory statements from local politicians making it sound like ICE is sweeping neighborhoods in SoCal & kicking doors down, they are targeting those who already have a deportation orders or who have criminality that has been signed off on by a federal judge. If others are found with the targets and they are also illegal aliens, they will be arrested too. This is enforcement of bipartisan immigration laws that have been on the books for decades.

👇 Assistant Secretary Dept of Homeland Security

Why do @GavinNewsom and @MayorOfLA care more about violent murderers and pedophiles than they do about protecting their own citizens?

ICE officers are removing the worst of the worst from LA’s streets, while LA’s leaders are working tirelessly against them. @TriciaOhio pic.twitter.com/QQoK9VnFTu

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) June 7, 2025