09/10/2026
BREAKING🚨 ICE agents took a Los Angeles family in a raid. and left their dog behind. A year later she has been through multiple homes and shelters and still has nowhere to go.
Macey, a 6-year-old shepherd-husky mix in Los Angeles, was left behind when her family was swept up in an immigration raid in 2025. She has bounced between homes and shelters ever since.
Victoria Begler, the founder and director of GSL Rescue, pulled Macey out of a shelter 10 months ago, on the day she was set to be euthanized.
"She was in much better condition than most of the animals we see in the shelter," Begler said. "Her previous family had gotten her spayed already. She clearly had been very loved and cared for."
One family took her home and returned her. Another took her recently as a trial adoption and returned her too.
Begler said it is likely the sudden separation from her original family that is making it so hard for Macey to settle with anyone else.
"Macey cannot go back into a shelter, because she was on a euthanasia list, meaning if she's returned to the shelter, she will be euthanized," Begler said. Without an adopter or a foster, the rescue will have to move her into a boarding facility.
At least 15 dogs were surrendered at L.A. County shelters because of deportations in a single three-and-a-half-week stretch after the raids began.
Dogs relinquished at the county's Palmdale shelter more than doubled compared with the same month the year before.
Euthanasia rates for dogs at L.A. city shelters climbed 57% in April over the previous April. No government agency tracks how many pets have lost their homes to the crackdown.
Asked about animals left behind, the Department of Homeland Security said ICE "does NOT impound property," and did not explain further.
Begler said that if someone is willing to give Macey the same loyalty she gave her first family, "I think she could be somebody's soul dog."
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