UCLA Luskin Urban Planning Professor Chris Tilly spoke to CBS Evening News in a broadcast about the economic impacts of ICE raids on businesses, workers and customers in Los Angeles. The news segment noted the visibly sharp decline in foot traffic and business activity in the normally active downtown Los Angeles area. While the city’s streets have remained relatively calm with overnight curfews in place, vendors and customers are staying home out of fear of detention and deportation, according to local business owners. “We’re talking many billions of dollars that are being lost if we continue this deportation nationwide,” said Tilly. He explained, “If you’re talking about five percent of the workforce, that is a large and important spending block and some of that gets spent in immigrant enclaves,” adding, “But, it definitely ripples out to the broad economy.”