With new tactics, ICE reaches new high in monthly arrests

By: Tim Henderson

Outlets: Stateline

Published: August 10, 2026

Words: 1,078

Last Updated: 1 week, 2 days ago

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Federal immigration agents are employing new tactics — from arresting academics at airports to setting up a checkpoint at a popular creek in a National Forest — to boost their arrest numbers, leading to more arrests in July than in any previous month of the Trump administration.

Though it is striving to fulfill the White House’s demand for more arrests, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is still falling short of the Trump administration’s announced goal …

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