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Trump’s despicable deportation machine is shedding steam

Editorial Board Published August 6, 2025
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Arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers dropped practically 20% in July—and in line with Axios, the Trump administration isn’t glad about it.

Information from the nonpartisan Transactional Information Entry Clearinghouse nonprofit at Syracuse College reveals that ICE made a median of 990 arrests per day between July 1 and July 27. That’s down from 1,224 every day arrests in June and nowhere close to the three,000 every day aim as soon as floated by senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller. (That benchmark, notably, hasn’t appeared in any court docket filings.)


Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers wait to detain an individual on Jan. 27 in Silver Spring, Maryland.

The drop adopted a wave of backlash after masked ICE brokers carried out aggressive raids in Los Angeles, the place protests erupted and unfold throughout the nation, prompting court docket orders which have since curtailed ICE’s ways. Simply final week, a federal appeals court docket upheld a ruling blocking most of the company’s operations in Southern California.

The Division of Homeland Safety is making an attempt to downplay the dip. Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin instructed Axios that arrests have been solely down 10%, from 31,000 in June to 27,000 in July.

“Despite a historic number of injunctions—including the [temporary restraining order] in Los Angeles—ICE continues to arrest the worst of the worst,” McLaughlin mentioned. “From gang members and terrorists to pedophiles, every day ICE is removing these barbaric criminal illegal aliens from American communities. Secretary [Kristi] Noem has been clear: Nothing will stop us from carrying out the president and American people’s mandate to carry out the largest deportation of criminal illegal aliens in American history.”

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However the numbers counsel one thing else completely. As of late July, TRAC reported that about 71% of these at present in ICE custody don’t have any felony convictions. And amongst those that do, many have been for minor offenses like visitors violations.

Whereas the Trump administration insists that it’s focusing on violent criminals, critics say that the sweeps of low-level offenders are sowing concern in immigrant communities.

The backlash isn’t the one issue behind the drop. Trump’s flip-flopping—significantly over whether or not to pause raids of undocumented staff within the agriculture and hospitality industries—has led to inner confusion and additional slowed ICE operations.

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A cartoon by Clay Jones.

And the fallout from these June raids nonetheless looms massive. Households have been separated. Immigrants fled worksites, abandoning vehicles, youngsters, and pets. And U.S. residents—lots of them Latino—reported being wrongly detained in what advocates name racial profiling and overpolicing.

A coalition of immigrant rights teams sued the Trump administration final month for intentionally focusing on brown individuals in Southern California.

The variety of individuals at present in ICE custody has dipped barely, from 57,861 on June 29 to 56,945 as of July 27, in line with TRAC.

In court docket, the Trump administration maintains that it isn’t setting quotas, and a Justice Division lawyer instructed the ninth Circuit Courtroom final week that ICE management hasn’t been ordered to fulfill any particular arrest goal.

Nonetheless, the elevated raids that started in June have already left a mark: mass protests, authorized setbacks, and mounting criticism from civil rights teams. ICE is even providing new recruits scholar mortgage forgiveness and signing bonuses in a bid to maintain up operations.

The Trump staff might declare that ICE is targeted on the “worst of the worst.” However the reality is evident: The administration is sweeping up households, staff, and harmless individuals—and the political blowback is simply rising.

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