Immigration and Customs Enforcement more than doubled its number of at-large arrests this fall as the Trump administration shifted enforcement away from local jails and toward tracking immigrants in communities, according to a Washington Post analysis of government data.
The analysis found that ICE made about 17,500 at-large arrests in September and was on pace to exceed that figure in October, the highest monthly totals in data dating back to 2011. At-large arrests—those carried out in homes, workplaces, immigration check-ins, or public spaces—now account for a majority of ICE's monthly arrests, a change that became evident beginning in June.
