Florida's ICE Office Leads the Nation in Arrests — Without the Headline-Grabbing Raids

MIAMI, FLORIDA - MAY 25: Marvin Suazo, 43, passes through a TSA checkpoint at the Miami airport on May 25, 2026 in Miami, Florida, while self-deporting to Honduras. He family originally immigrated to the United States in 2014, seeking asylum and eventually settling in Big Sky, Montana. Although his elder daughter Samantha and his wife Maribel received permanent U.S. residency, Marvin remained undocumented due to previous deportation. In early 2026, ICE agents deported six of his employees following a raid. Under immense stress, this spring the family made the difficult decision to sacrifice family cohesion: Suazo would self-deport to Honduras and the rest of the family would remain living in the United States. Following Samantha's May 18 graduation from Yale University, the family traveled on one last trip together, this time down the U.S. eastern coast, visiting Washington, DC as well as Orlando and Miami, Florida. From there he flew back to the mountainous coffee country of central Honduras he had left a dozen years before. (Credit: Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

The federal office responsible for immigration enforcement across Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands is now booking roughly 120 arrests a day — the fastest clip among all 25 of ICE's field offices nationwide, according to internal agency data reviewed by the New York Times and detailed locally by CBS News Miami. That pace has nearly doubled since President Trump's second term began in January 2025, when the office was making closer to 70 arrests a day.

Cumulative arrests by the Miami office have topped 41,000 since the start of 2025 — more than a third higher than any other field office in the country. Dallas, the office in second place, has cooled off since last year: after peaking above 90 arrests a day in late 2025, it had settled to roughly 80 a day by this spring, according to that same Times dataset. A separate report from earlier in the year put Dallas closer to 100 arrests daily, a reminder that these figures shift depending on which month's snapshot is being cited.