ICE arrests topped 100,000 so far in Trump's second term
Arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) six months into President Trump's second term topped 100,000, BBC's US partner CBS revealed last week.
ICE recorded more than 2,000 arrests both on 2 and 3 June, internal government data obtained by CBS News shows.
This marks a dramatic increase from the daily average of 660 arrests reported by the agency during Trump's first 100 days back at the White House, the federal statistics show. By contrast, during President Biden's last year in office, ICE averaged roughly 300 daily arrests.
On Thursday morning, ICE was holding around 54,000 immigrant detainees in detention facilities across the country.
The increase in detentions comes as the Trump administration is asking Congress to give ICE billions of dollars in extra funds to hire thousands of additional deportation officers and expand detention capacity to hold 100,000 individuals at any given point.
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