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.Published On 26 Aug 202626 Aug 2026United 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.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Most Americans say Trump has gone too far on US immigration: Polllist 2 of 3US plans to equip ICE officers with electric-shock gloveslist 3 of 3Salvadoran man dies in ICE custody at New Jersey detention centreend of listThe 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 ...