WaPo: ‘ICE has arrested more aliens with no criminal record in the first half of 2026 than it did in all of 2025.’

DHS is now targeting a wider range of illegals than ever, including overstays and former TPS. 2026 is set to surpass 2025 in all-time high interior arrests.

ICE is conducting historic levels of enforcement in California this year. ICE arrests are up 70% in the San Francisco Bay Area alone, with the highest total of arrests on record in July.

Immigration arrests in the streets, not in jails, have gone up at least 10x and deportations are up 5x. This is being done with only a small number of agents, for now, in a state with zero cooperation.

Groups say more than 100 people were arrested during a raid at El Corralón — a bar in Memphis, Tennessee — this morning. ICE, HSI were seen present at the scene.

ICE carried out record high Third-Country removal flights in July and has expanded them in August.

ICE recently deported 100+ illegals from abroad — including Afghans, Cubans, Turks and more— to Africa after they refused to go home. Trump has removed over 23,000 deportees like this, using diplomatic deportation agreements.

The Trump admin is leading the largest denaturalization effort against immigrants on record.

From 1967 to 2017, fewer than 150 people were denaturalized. From 1990 to 2017, only 305 cases were filed. Biden's DOJ only filed 64, in 4 years. Trump's DOJ filed 50 denaturalizations in July alone — ‘the most ever in recent memory’.

The Department of Transportation just announced a massive driving school sweep. Sec Duffy has issued emergency action to shut down 110 driving schools for failing to enforce proper English proficiency rules.

In 19 months, the dept of transportation under Sec Duffy has taken out 28k illiterate drivers, made states cancel 30k foreign licenses, and purged near 10k schools from FMCSA.

Now, USDOT is shutting down 110 CDL schools for bad practices and will be joining DOJ, DHS on highway safety enforcement. This is unprecedented, full-force immigration action.

The Trump admin is leading the first whole-of-government effort against immigration.

While the SBA, HUD and HHS have cut alien access to housing, business and healthcare, the DOT, DOL, and EEOC are clamping down on widespread alien employment.

Trump's Big Beautiful Bill is stripping benefits like SNAP from lawful and unlawful aliens across the board, cutting incentives. Trump's Treasury is taking steps to debank illegals, and Trump's DHS, DOJ and DOW are imposing consequences onto fraudsters and invaders. Every aspect and every agency is pushing back the replacement.

Trump's reshape of immigration courts is preventing hundreds of thousands of aliens from becoming lawful.

All year, immigration courts have maintained the lowest asylum grant rate in history — asylum denial hit its highest point in May at roughly 93%, and rose again in June, to 94%. Both higher than that of every year since 1980.

Immigration courts are very important for our mission.

These courts have issued more removal orders under Trump than any other president. Bond denial, asylum denial and deportation orders rising facilitate more aliens into departure or deportation — a reverse migration pipeline.

MSNOW fears “Stephen Miller's patience is paying off.”

The admin is rescinding legal status en masse while restricting legal migration across the board, and ICE arrests have surged beyond all records with far less drama and more targets. ‘And further restrictions are coming.’

“Trump's ICE has detained more people than the population of Atlanta”, or more than all of Wyoming, the Marshall Project alarms.

Unlike prior adminstrations, immigration researchers and experts say Trump's detentions and deportations are nearly all of aliens from the interior, even arresting people released years ago.

Border crossings hit all-time lows, yet alien arrests remain at all-time highs. Despite interference from activist judges, inaction by Congress and the resistance of major cities, Trump is outperforming every single past administration on deportations, especially Obama.

President Trump's Most Favored Nation policy and his TrumpRx project — see https://trumprx.gov — have successfully lowered prescription drug prices. Trump is the first president to lower real drug prices, making useful medication more accessible for the first time in 60 years.

A federal judge has halted Virginia from eliminating existing 287(g) agreements with ICE, a huge win for enforcement.

The latest deportation data shows ICE arrests have surged to new highs, even in New York, as DHS takes a “quieter, more efficient approach”.

ICE arrests have spiked in NYC and doubled across upstate NY, driven by a greater focus on aliens with ‘no criminal history’ in the US.

The Trump admin is restoring the obligation states have to report known illegal aliens who have applied to use or have used public services like cash assistance in the jurisdiction of said state. Since 1998, there was no requirement to do so. The Trump admin has changed that.

Another case of Trump wielding good provisions and withdrawing bad policy that's sat for decades.

The Trump admin is pulling every lever to support immigration enforcement, including first-ever fines on illegals, penalties on immigration attorneys, now this welfare reporting requirement. Elections do matter, and the Trump admin continues to deliver.

“ICE is arresting more people than ever”, Salon and NBC report.

ICE has made record-breaking arrests in June, July and August, alongside a back-to-back rise in alien removals. Thanks to growing 287(g) agreements and quiet but expansive enforcement, mass deportations are ramping up.

Mass Deportations are happening: ICE has now set three straight months of record-breaking arrests, netting the highest totals in agency history. June, July and August dwarf decades prior.

Unlike previous admins, which focused on border crossers and select targets, Trump's ICE is detaining and deporting record numbers of illegal aliens from the interior. And it isn't just the 'worst of the worst'. ICE has arrested more aliens with "no criminal record" in the first 7 months of 2026 than it did in all of 2025.

Since Mullin's confirmation, ICE has begun arresting visa overstays, former TPS, and worksite raids have increased.