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Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down

ICE officials were told to put 80% of officers on arrest operations as daily detentions roughly doubled from earlier this year, officials said.

  • Federal immigration officials detained more than 10,000 people in the last five days, following a Trump White House mandate to aggressively increase arrest rates across the United States.
  • Following President Donald Trump's signing of a reconciliation package containing $70 billion for immigration enforcement, ICE was instructed to assign 80% of its officers to "arrest operations."
  • On Saturday, ICE officers arrested 2,400 people, while continuing to ignore a federal judge's order curtailing courthouse arrests at locations including 26 Federal Plaza and 290 Broadway in Lower Manhattan.
  • Murad Awawdeh, president and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition, told The Intercept that ICE operates in a "lawless and rogue fashion" and is not following court orders.
  • Amid record deaths in ICE custody under the Trump administration, President Donald Trump intends to nominate former Oklahoma state trooper Lance Schroyer to lead the agency permanently.
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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Control (ICE) detained more than 10,000 people in the last five days, an increase that almost doubles the rate of arrests recorded earlier this year, as part of a strategy promoted by the Donald Trump administration to step up the enforcement of immigration laws, reported on Wednesday July 1 The New York Times.According to the newspaper, which quotes internal documents and interviews with federal officials, the I…

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Political Wire broke the news in New York, United States on Wednesday, July 1, 2026.
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