Data from the Department of Homeland Security showed a steady rise in arrests since the start of the second term. July's numbers highlight the scale of current operations across multiple states.

Record-keeping through the Deportation Data Project at UC Berkeley and UCLA has shown the explosive growth of illegal immigrant arrests since Trump’s second term.

The project uses publicly available records to analyze U.S. government immigration enforcement data.

Since January 2025, the number of book-ins to ICE detention facilities has not fallen below 10,000.

The most notable jump in arrests occurred from May to June 2025, when ICE arrested around 8,000 people.

Provided below are the numbers of arrests made and the months they correspond to:

  • Jan. 2025—12,330
  • Feb. 2025—17,370
  • Mar. 2025—18,877
  • Apr. 2025—17,871
  • May 2025—22,636
  • Jun. 2025—30,436
  • Jul. 2025—27,296
  • Aug. 2025—28,280
  • Sep. 2025—33,107
  • Oct. 2025—37,543
  • Nov. 2025—35,056
  • Dec. 2025—40,177
  • Jan. 2026—37,933
  • Feb. 2026—29,941
  • Mar. 2026—30,886
  • Apr. 2026—31,462
  • May 2026—32,545
  • Jun. 2026—43,021
  • Jul. 2026—49,571

Currently, the number of arrests made in August is 7,409.

The number of arrests made by state and local police departments that partner with ICE has dramatically increased over the last year.

Those partnerships, which ICE has grown with the help of generous financial incentives for participating agencies, accounted for 6,500 arrests in July, or about 13% of the total, according to the data.

A year earlier, they accounted for less than 5% of ICE’s monthly arrests.

Texas and Florida accounted for nearly 20,000 of the July arrests, in a sign of how important those states have become to the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda.

Florida accounted for 7,403 arrests, and Texas contributed 12,086 arrests.