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Border czar Tom Homan said immigration arrests reached the highest point in ICE’s 23-year history, with federal authorities averaging nearly 1,600 arrests per day in July and deporting more than 356,000 people during fiscal year 2026.
By yourNEWS Media Newsroom
Federal immigration authorities are carrying out arrests and deportations at their fastest pace since Immigration and Customs Enforcement was established in 2003, with July enforcement activity surpassing record levels reported the previous month.
White House border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday that ICE recorded more arrests in June than during any previous month in the agency’s history, while preliminary July figures were running even higher. The increase comes as the Trump administration expands enforcement operations and uses newly approved funding to sustain its mass-deportation campaign.
“In June, we had the highest numbers of arrests in the history of the agency of ICE and July’s tracking even beat that. So we’re hitting all cylinders now,” Homan said during an interview with NewsNation.
ICE and Customs and Border Protection averaged 1,593 arrests per day in July, compared with approximately 1,437 daily arrests in June. The July total represents the highest monthly arrest pace recorded since ICE was created 23 years ago as part of the federal government’s reorganization of immigration and security agencies following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Homan said the administration intends to maintain the pace now that federal immigration enforcement has received full funding.
“Since we’re fully funded, we just got to keep going. I know that this administration was put under enormous pressure as a result of the previous administration letting in tens of millions of people … we had no idea who they were,” he said.
ICE had deported 356,389 people during fiscal year 2026 as of July 11, according to figures released July 20. The fiscal year began Oct. 1, 2025, placing the average number of removals at approximately 1,255 per day over that period.
More recent July figures indicate that immigration officials are now removing more than 1,500 people on some days as arrests and enforcement operations accelerate. The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and CBP, said the administration remains focused on removing illegal immigrants with serious criminal histories.
A DHS spokesperson said the department would continue to “arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens including murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists.”
“More than 3 million illegal aliens are out of the country,” the spokesperson added, warning those remaining illegally in the United States that “we will find you, we will arrest you, and we will deport you.”
President Donald Trump made large-scale deportations a central promise of his 2024 campaign and has signed executive orders intended to restrict illegal immigration, reduce some forms of legal immigration and increase the detention and removal of people living unlawfully in the country.
The rapid expansion of immigration enforcement has also generated controversy following two fatal shootings involving ICE agents in Maine and Houston, Texas. Both incidents prompted local protests and renewed scrutiny of the tactics used during enforcement operations.
Homan at one point confirmed that ICE would temporarily suspend vehicle stops, but Trump overruled the decision. The president argued in a Truth Social post that traffic stops needed to continue and said halting them would benefit Democrats and criminals seeking to obstruct immigration enforcement.
The administration has since added a body-camera requirement for vehicle operations. Homan said Sunday that at least one ICE agent participating in each traffic stop must wear a camera and record the encounter.
Body-camera footage, he said, often “exonerate more law enforcement than they convict, and I want officers to wear body cameras because I want the American people to see what the officers saw when they took that action.”
The requirement is intended to create a visual record of confrontations between agents and vehicle occupants, providing evidence that can be reviewed after shootings, use-of-force incidents or disputes over how an arrest was conducted.
ICE was formally established in March 2003 as part of a broad restructuring of federal immigration responsibilities after the Sept. 11 attacks. With daily arrests now exceeding the records set during the agency’s previous two decades, Homan said the administration plans to continue expanding operations rather than slow the current pace.
