ICE Arrests Hit Record 49,571 in July

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 49,571 people in July — the highest single monthly total of President Donald Trump's second term.

That is a 15% jump from the 43,021 arrests in June and a 70% increase over the 29,241 recorded in February, according to government data ICE provided to the University of California, Berkeley's Deportation Data Project and analyzed by the Associated Press.

The data was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. It is the numerical spine under the individual ICE cases now driving the news, from New York's new ban on local police cooperation to the Navy sailor's father released this week.

The Numbers

In December 2024, the last full month before Trump took office, monthly immigration arrests hovered a little over 8,000 — a figure made up largely of immigrants transferred to ICE from city and state jails and prisons. July's total was more than five and a half times that, the Washington Examiner reported.

Texas and Florida alone accounted for nearly 20,000 of the July arrests, followed by California, New York and Georgia, according to the data. Both Texas and Florida have leaned heavily on 287(g) cooperation agreements, which let state and local police act as arms of federal immigration enforcement.

None of the reporting on the July figures breaks the arrests down by criminal record. The most recent breakdown from the government came separately: the Department of Homeland Security said an Aug. 1–14 operation in the Washington, D.C., suburbs of Virginia and Maryland produced 1,328 arrests, of which nearly 400 involved people with criminal convictions or pending charges.