U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 50,000 people in July, averaging more than 1,500 arrests and 1,100 removals daily. This represents a record number of immigrants arrested and deported by the Trump administration, showing a rise of roughly 15 percent over the count in June.
The administration has shifted its strategy, moving away from the high-profile, militarized raids that defined its immigration enforcement approach last year. Instead, government data suggests the administration is quietly ramping up its operations.
Texas and Florida accounted for nearly 20,000 of the July arrests. To support these operations, the agency has been bolstered by billions of dollars from Congress and has hired 12,000 new deportation officers and agents.
These figures stand in contrast to the month before President Trump returned to office, when monthly immigration arrests hovered just above 8,000. Those arrests mostly involved immigrants transferred from local or state detention facilities to ICE for deportation.