ICE Detains 46,000 in July, Pushing Custody Near 70,000 as Trump Widens Crackdown
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Updated · CBS New York · Aug 4
ICE Detains 46,000 in July, Pushing Custody Near 70,000 as Trump Widens Crackdown
3 articles · Updated · CBS New York · Aug 4
Summary
More than 46,000 people facing deportation entered ICE custody in July, a preliminary monthly high for Trump’s second term and above June’s previous record.
An average 1,500 detainees a day were booked as the White House pressed ICE to reach 2,000 daily arrests and the agency expanded operations at airports, traffic stops and check-in offices.
ICE was holding 68,000 detainees this weekend, nearing the roughly 70,000 record set in January as newly hired agents helped lift enforcement after an earlier slowdown.
Two fatal ICE shootings last month in Texas and Maine, plus plainclothes airport arrests aided by TSA traveler data, reignited criticism even as DHS broadened deportation eligibility, including for more than 300,000 Haitians.
The surge underscores a quieter strategy under Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin: keep ICE out of headlines while advancing Trump’s mass-deportation pledge.