ICE arrested 49,571 people in July, a second-term monthly high

The July arrest tally of 49,571 marks a 15% jump from 43,021 arrests a month earlier and a 70% increase from 29,241 in February, in the aftermath of the Trump administration's enforcement surge in Minnesota, according to government data that was provided by ICE to the Deportation Data Project based at UC Berkeley and UCLA and analyzed by The Associated Press.

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In the aftermath of two fatal shootings in Minnesota in January that sparked protests and an uproar from Democratic lawmakers, arrests began to fall in February.

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During Trump's first year back in office, the numbers started climbing as the administration loosened restrictions on where and whom ICE could arrest while it also infused the agency with billions of dollars.

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By December, the number of arrests jumped to more than 40,177, according to the data, which was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

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Homeland Security largely stopped reporting immigration enforcement data at the beginning of the second Trump administration, making the data from the Deportation Data Project one of the few insights into how the agency is operating.

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After remaining stagnant for months, the numbers surged in June and then again in July.

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And the figures show Mullin hasn't shifted the agency from Trump's vision for mass deportations.

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But his tenure has been marred by a number of fatal shootings of immigrants in encounters with ICE officers.

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That close cooperation is increasingly resulting in arrests like one last week in Florida's Key West.

The manager at the Half Shell Raw Bar said Tuesday that one of his staff members, a 36-year-old asylum seeker who fled Haiti in 2017 after receiving death threats, was arrested by local police and turned over to ICE.

The manager, Bobby Kuchinsky, said the man had worked as a cook and supervisor at the restaurant and was the main provider of his family.

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Operations, often led by former Border Patrol agent Greg Bovino, were blasted out on social media videos showing officers bursting out of moving vans to chase people or rappelling from helicopters onto apartment rooftops.

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Kuchinsky declined to identify the man out of concern for his safety while in custody.

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Immigrants are being arrested when they report to mandated appointments at ICE offices, at traffic stops, outside their homes and, increasingly, at US airports.

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Boosted by a $70bn funding surge, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – the agency that oversees ICE and the border patrol – has been working to ramp up to the White House goal of 2,000 arrests every day.

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Attorneys are also advising clients with temporary protected status (TPS) to make sure they apply for different forms of immigration relief after the supreme court cleared the way for the administration to strip the designation from 50,000 Haitians and 6,100 Syrians.

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Attorneys are also advising clients with temporary protected status (TPS) to make sure they apply for different forms of immigration relief after the supreme court cleared the way for the administration to strip the designation from 50,000 Haitians and 6,100 Syrians.

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In the past month, the administration has been particularly focused on enforcement in the Springfield, Ohio, area, where a large group of Haitians with TPS had settled in recent years.

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The first deportation flight to Haiti since the supreme court decision landed last week.

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Detentions in ICE custody have also been rising this summer since a drop following a January peak.

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TPS for Salvadorans is set to expire in September – ending protections for 170,000 people.

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The former head of DHS often accompanied ICE officers on high profile raids, including Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis, which left two American citizens dead at the hands of federal agents.

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All but California participate in the federal 287(g) program, which allows state and local law enforcement officers to perform certain parts of federal immigration law in the field under ICE's direction and oversight.

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As NPR reported, Florida leads the nation with the most local law enforcement agencies with 287(g) agreements.

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California and a number of other states, including New York, Maine and Vermont, ban 287(g) agreements.

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At least 10 people have died in encounters with immigration agents since Trump returned to office and launched his immigration crackdown.

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A recent two-week operation saw agents nab 1,328 illegal migrants, including roughly 400 with prior criminal convictions.

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