Immigration police detained a record number of people in June.
The Donald Trump administration detained a record number of immigrants last month, according to new government data. It shows that ICE agents, operating quietly, are gradually increasing their activity across the country, writes The Guardian.
An analysis of the latest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data showed that federal agents apprehended 43,138 people in June. This is the highest number since Donald Trump took office last January, when he announced a policy of mass deportations of migrants.
The number of people in custody also increased by 5,450 compared to early April, the last time the service published data on detainees. As of July 11, there were 65,765 people in detention centers. This is slightly below the record high of 70,770 people held in January.
On the subject: Immigrant detentions have risen to 2000 a day, with operations being carried out quietly, without any high-profile raids.
As has been the case since last summer, the number of people in detention centers without a criminal record exceeds the number of those with charges or convictions.
According to the latest data, the Trump administration has deported more than 590,600 people since January 2025.
The new figures confirm what human rights activists and immigration attorneys working in various states have long been arguing. Following a $70 billion funding increase, the US Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Protection, has been steadily increasing the scale of its apprehensions and detentions. According to some reports, the White House has demanded that immigration officials reach a daily apprehension rate of approximately 2,000.
Residents of many cities are once again on high alert over immigration enforcement activity after officers shot and killed two men—52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and 26-year-old Juan Sebastián Durán Guerrero—in the space of a week. These incidents sparked protests against the immigration enforcement system across the country.
Last year, the Trump administration carried out a series of harsh, practically military-style operations in cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis, but recently the tactics have shifted. Following the shooting of two US citizens, Renee Goode and Alex Pretty, by immigration officers in Minneapolis, Trump replaced Department of Homeland Security Director Kristi Noem with Markwayne Mullin. Mullin stated his intention to abandon high-profile, showy operations.
The mobile teams of agents who conducted raids in public parks and parking lots are now less common. According to human rights activists and legal organizations, arrests are occurring more casually: at workplaces, near homes, or during roadside checks. Many migrants are detained when they arrive at agency offices for mandatory reporting. Many are stopped by police officers, sheriffs, and other local law enforcement officers authorized by federal authorities to conduct immigration raids.
According to human rights activists, because arrests are carried out quietly and have become routine, volunteers who previously monitored the movement of service vehicles and alerted them to the presence of agents now have a harder time understanding where and how operations are taking place.
"It all happens too quickly. People simply don't have time to arrive, document what's happening, and report it," emphasized Gracie Willis, a lawyer with the National Immigration Project. "Often, all that's left is an empty car."
Since 2019, Congress has required Immigration and Customs Enforcement to publish data on apprehensions, detentions, and deportations every two weeks. However, the agency did not update its statistics from early April until July 20.
The delay sparked outrage among lawmakers across the political spectrum. Several media outlets, academics, and nonprofits filed requests demanding the release of data on the number of migrants detained and held. In its statement, the agency attributed the months-long delay in releasing the data to a series of federal government shutdowns.
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The number of apprehensions in June was the highest since May 2019, when a record influx of people, including families and unaccompanied minors, arrived at the southern US border. During that period, the majority of apprehensions were carried out by US Customs and Border Protection. However, according to government data, after Trump takes office in 2025, the majority of apprehensions will be carried out domestically by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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