Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests have surged since May 2025, when the Trump administration raised its internal daily target from about 1,000 arrests a day to 3,000, part of a broader push to accelerate deportations and expand interior enforcement, Axios reported Thursday.
Citing ICE data compiled by UC Berkeley, the report said the administration remains short of its 3,000-per-day goal, but arrests have risen steadily since President Donald Trump took office in January of this year.
The figures show that while an average of roughly 1,100 deportations per day has held steady in recent weeks, the daily average from Jan. 20 to Oct. 15 was 821.
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