US immigration agents arrested more than 49,500 people in July

The number of arrests in July showed a rise of roughly 15 percent over June’s count. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 49,571 people in July, the highest in a month since President Donald Trump took office for his second term, according to the latest figures available.

The figures for July showed a rise of roughly 15 percent over June’s count and about 70 percent above February’s total, according to government data provided by ICE to the Deportation Data Project based at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles and analysed by The Associated Press news agency. Most Americans say Trump has gone too far on US immigration: Poll US plans to equip ICE officers with electric-shock gloves Salvadoran man dies in ICE custody at New Jersey detention centre The month before Trump’s return to the White House in January 2025, monthly arrests were slightly more than 8,000, a figure largely made up of immigrants transferred from city or state jails and prisons and turned over to ICE to remove from the country. In his first year back in office, the monthly numbers started climbing as officials eased limits on where and whom agents could target.

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