The Trump administration has ramped up its arrests of illegal aliens, with 50,000 arrested in the last eight weeks, and nearly 150,000 since January. The Washington Examiner reports:
Between January and April, ICE made 68,714 arrests, an average of roughly 17,000 per month. The numbers went up in the following months to 25,645 in May, 34,962 in June, and 19,763 as of mid-July.
Arrests have ramped up since a White House official blasted ICE officials in late May and commanded the federal police to go after all illegal immigrants, including those found in places that historically have not been targeted, according to David Bier, director of immigration studies at the libertarian Cato Institute think tank in Washington.
“The increase in ICE arrests in recent weeks is a direct result of Stephen Miller’s demand that ICE stop focusing on public safety threats and profile people going to work or attending their hearings,” Bier wrote in an email. “These arrests are creating chaos in the streets and explain President Trump’s falling approval rating on immigration.”
Andrew Arthur, a former immigration judge who is now resident fellow in law and policy for the Center of Immigration Studies in Washington, said the number should come as no surprise given that Trump is following through on what he has long promised to do, if elected.
“The president is doing what he said he was going to do. The president’s doing what an overwhelming majority of the people want him to do, which is taking criminal aliens off of the streets,” Arthur said in a phone call.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said in late July that the government has “opened up the whole aperture of the immigration portfolio,” allowing federal police to focus on all illegal immigrants.
The latest arrest data suggest that ICE has averaged more than 700 arrests per day, twice as many as during 2024 when former President Joe Biden was in office, according to Kathleen Bush-Joseph, attorney and policy analyst for the Migration Policy Institute in Washington.
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