US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) arrested more than 8,200 people between 22 January and 31 January, according to data the department is releasing on social media. The figures are the first public data on the new Trump administration’s promised mass-deportation efforts and are part of a new tactic from the administration to promote its efforts to fulfill Donald Trump’s campaign promise to detain and deport millions of undocumented immigrants. The posts highlight the daily number of arrests and detainers, which are requests to local law enforcement agencies to hold someone so that Ice can detain them. As of 12 February, the agency has not released any new figures in 12 days. But on average, the administration has been arresting 826 people a day since the president was inaugurated on 20 January.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) has detained more than 32,800 irregular immigrants in the first 50 days of the Donald Trump administration. The figure, announced by the Department of Homeland Security and ICE on Wednesday, puts the Republican government on the way to far surpassing the arrests made last fiscal year under the presidency of Joe Biden.
Senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials are accusing the Biden administration of egregiously misrepresenting data to make ICE arrests appear higher than they actually were. During a Wednesday press call with the media, senior ICE and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials touted the unprecedented efforts to arrest criminal illegal migrants during President Donald Trump’s first 50 days in office. Well over 30,000 ICE arrests have taken place since Trump returned to the White House, nearly matching all of the ICE arrests that took place in fiscal year 2024 under the Biden administration.
