McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — A new online dashboard gives real-time data on arrests and removals of immigrants by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Immigration Enforcement Dashboard tracks and combines complicated individualized case arrests, detentions, and deportations throughout the United States dating back to September 2023.
It’s part of the Deportation Data Project, which collects these statistics from public information requests and litigation. It is free and designed for use by journalists, researchers and policymakers “who require validated, nonpartisan data but lack the technical infrastructure or domain expertise to independently process large-scale government datasets,” according to its website.
According to the data, since President Donald Trump took office in January, through July 29, arrests total 138,068. 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 also have had some of the most arrests — 10,123, and 3,520 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.
The data also drills down by age of arrest, citizenship, gender and criminal history.
Sandra Sanchez can be reached at SSanchez@BorderReport.com.
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