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Pedro Camacho

ICE Is Responsible for More Immigrant Arrests than Border Patrol for the First Time in Four Years

ICE agent monitors asylum seekers (Credit: Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

For the first time in four years, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is responsible for more immigrant arrests than U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), according to new data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).

The shift signals an increase in interior immigration enforcement under the Trump administration, which has prioritized detaining immigrants already present in the United States. In contrast, CBP, which operates at the nation's borders, was responsible for the majority of detentions in previous years

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