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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Maanvi Singh and Amy Qin

ICE arrested 50,000 people in July – quietly the biggest month in Trump’s second term

Masked men frogmarch a detained a person down a corridor
ICE agents walk a detainee out of the Ventura county government center in Ventura, California, on 27 July 2026. Photograph: Blake Fagan/AFP via Getty Images

The Trump administration arrested and deported a record number of immigrants in July, according to newly released government data – apprehending an average of 1,500 people and removing 1,100 people daily.

This latest data confirms what attorneys and immigrant advocates have been seeing across the US – although the administration has moved away from the high-profile, militarized raids that came to define its immigration enforcement approach last year, it is quietly ramping up its operations.

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