by Kevin Killough
Arrests by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency have spiked in the last few weeks, with a daily average hitting 1,400 people.
The pace of ICE arrests in the first 12 days of July sets the Trump administration on track to reach the highest number of arrests in a single month, the Washington Post reported.
The number of people arrested and sent to detention facilities by ICE in June was 39,500, which surpasses the previous high from December.
Following two fatal shootings in February in Minneapolis, ICE arrests dropped in February. They have increased every month since, and ICE has hit 2,000 arrests per day several times in that period.
President Donald Trump has said he wants to deport 1 million illegal immigrants per year. To hit this number, federal law enforcement agencies will need to arrest an estimated 2,740 illegal immigrants per day.
Arrests by ICE agents are up by more than 40% between this year and the same period last year.
In a statement to the National News Desk, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said America has seen “approximately 3 million illegals have left the United States, either through forced deportation or self-deportation” since Trump returned to office.
On Thursday, Border Patrol said America has seen 14 consecutive months of zero releases at its borders, along with lower border-crossing numbers.
“Another month of historically low illegal border crossings demonstrates the success of President Trump’s decisive border security policies,” said DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. “We will not stop in our unwavering commitment to strengthen our nation’s security and keep Americans safe.”
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Kevin Killough is a reporter for Just the News. Zachery Schmidt is the digital editor of The Star News Network and contributed to this story.
