The Immigration Enforcement Dashboard tracks and combines complicated individualised case arrests, detentions, and deportations throughout the United States, dating back to September 2023. According to the data, since President Donald Trump took office in January, through July 29, a total of 138,068 arrests have been reported. Since Sept. 1, 2023, there have been 291,668 total arrests. Monthly arrests peaked in June, at 30,390, and dropped to 23,617 in July, which is the second-most monthly arrests so far during Trump’s second term. Most of the arrests since January have occurred in Texas — 28,243, according to the data.
The Southwest border states of California and Arizona have also had some of the highest arrest rates, with 10,123 and 3,520 arrests, respectively. Other states among the top 10 in arrests of immigrants include:
Florida: 12,902
Georgia: 4,926
New York: 4,576
Virginia: 4,179
Tennessee: 3,514
New Jersey: 3,202
Pennsylvania: 2,951
ICE officers in Miami have made the most arrests since Jan. 20 — over 15,500, about 11% of all arrests nationwide, according to the data. Officers in the New Orleans area, which includes all of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, made 11,436 arrests. Areas in South Texas through ICE’s Harlingen office accounted for 3.8% of nationwide arrests — over 5,200, according to the data.