Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 50,000 people in July 2026, the highest monthly total during President Trump's second term, according to reports released by August 26. Texas and Florida accounted for nearly 20,000 of the arrests; ICE had hired 12,000 new deportation officers and received billions in congressional funding.
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ICE arrests jumped to nearly 50,000 in July, the highest monthly total of Trump’s second term AP News
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 50,000 people in July.
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Texas and Florida accounted for nearly 20,000 of the July arrests. The agency has been bolstered by billions of dollars from Congress and has hired 12,000 new deportation officers and agents.
The month before President Donald Trump returned to office, immigration arrests stood at just over 8,000, mostly involving immigrants transferred from local or state detention facilities to ICE for deportation.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained almost 50,000 people in July, marking its highest monthly arrest total during President Trump's second term, newly released data shows. According to numbers published in the Deportation Data Project — a joint project conducted by the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Los Angeles — ICE arrested...