Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 10,000 people over a five-day period at the end of June, marking a major push by the agency tasked with carrying out the Trump administration’s mass deportations agenda. The arrest numbers indicate that while the administration is no longer cracking down on individual cities, the arrests continue and are surging.
Deportation Efforts
The total number of arrests during the five-day period translates into roughly 2,000 arrests per day. The Department of Homeland Security stated, ‘Since Day One, DHS law enforcement has been delivering on President Trump’s promise to the American people to arrest and deport illegal immigrants including murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists.’ The spike in arrests was first reported by The New York Times.
The number of people entered into ICE detention facilities climbed in June to roughly 39,000 after hovering around 30,000 per month since February. ICE doesn’t publicly release arrest data, making exact comparisons with previous periods difficult. However, according to data provided to UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project, 2,000 arrests per day would mark a sharp increase over previous periods.
Original reporting: Dallas TX News (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
