ICE Arrested a Record Number of People Without Criminal Records in Summer Enforcement Surge, New Data Shows

Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a record high of more than 800 people without criminal records a day in July on average, new federal data shows. The surge in arrests comes as the White House pushes the agency to hit a target of 2,000 per day.

July is the first month in President Trump’s second term when people with only civil immigration violations — rather than pending criminal charges or convictions — made up more than half of those arrested. An average of more than 1,580 people were arrested each day in July, also a new high for the current administration.

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The data, obtained from ICE by the Deportation Data Project run by the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA, does not provide information about immigrants’ alleged crimes in other countries. CBS News asked DHS to provide that data.

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But June and July data suggests that ICE agents making arrests in communities are not focusing their efforts solely on areas the administration deems to be sanctuary jurisdictions. Those cities and states saw a 27% increase in street arrests during those months compared to the previous six, compared with a 50% increase everywhere else, CBS News’ analysis of the data found.

In Florida, where state law requires local law enforcement to collaborate with ICE, federal agents made almost four times as many street arrests in June and July compared to the average over the previous six months. The increase was the highest in Jacksonville, where average monthly arrest totals rose from 15 to 165 this summer. Miami saw an average of 715 per month in June and July, up from 115.

In Texas, another state without sanctuary policies, arrests in communities tripled in El Paso and Austin.

While the overall increase of street arrests in cities with sanctuary policies was lower, some of them saw comparable surges. These arrests in San Ysidro, California, near the U.S.-Mexico border, were more than six times higher in June and July than in previous months, and they doubled in Denver, Colorado, and Newark, New Jersey.

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