A lot of drivers in Los Angeles are now posting Google Maps and Waze screenshots of improved commutes as empirical evidence that deportations are working. No red lines at rush hour? Just thirty minutes from Calabasas to Century City?
Big if true. Is this effect real? How many deportations did it take to perform this miracle?
According to Google AI, quite a few: “In June 2025, immigration judges in Los Angeles County completed 126,930 deportation cases, resulting in 45,902 removal orders and 3,676 voluntary departure orders, according to TRAC Immigration. This means that approximately 39.1% of the completed cases in June resulted in deportation, either through removal or voluntary departure.”
In June, 1,600 people were captured by ICE for deportation; a relatively small number. After all, there are officially almost one MILLION illegal aliens in L.A. County alone—ten percent of the county’s total population—and that number is almost certainly too low to account for all the people who came in during the waning days of the catastrophic Biden presidency.
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