ICE arrests hit record high in June with 43,138 booked into detention

by TheMidwesterner.news Staff -- Republished with permission | July 22, 2026

Arrests of illegal immigrants hit a record high in June, when 43,138 were booked into detention by federal agents, according to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement data.

Statistics released by ICE on Monday show the June bookings eclipse a previous high of 42,107 in December, and 41,610 in October, when federal officials ramped up Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis, and Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago, respectively.

Arrests this month through July 11 stood at 17,525, suggesting the total for July could set a another record.

“While Americans enjoyed the weekend and the FIFA World Cup Finals, the brave men and women of ICE law enforcement worked around the clock to arrest the worst of the worst, including murderers, rapists, violent assailants, drug traffickers, and other public safety threats,” Homeland Security posted to X on Monday. “Under @POTUS Trump and @SecMullinDHS, ICE is targeting the worst of the worst criminal aliens….”

The post included a list of the bad hombres now heading for deportation, which included illegal immigrants convicted of murder, driving while intoxicated, aggravated assault, sex assault of a child, aggravated assault on a child under 14 with a dangerous weapon, aggravated assault with intent to murder, corporal injury to a spouse, criminal mischief, attempted sexual assault, conspiracy to distribute methamphetamines, battery, enticing a minor, money laundering, sodomy of a person under 14, false imprisonment, and other heinous crimes.

 

ICE data shows 65,765 criminals currently detained in federal facilities, and a total of 353,948 arrested throughout fiscal year 2026 with criminal convictions, pending criminal charges, or immigration violations.

ICE noted in March “nearly 70% of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged with or convicted of a crime in the United States.”

Federal officials have deported 356,389 illegal immigrants from the U.S. this fiscal year.

The data shows just 14 illegal immigrants requested parole due to a positive credible fear in FY2026, compared to 7,051 in 2024.

The arrests coincide with record low border crossings.

With three months of figures remaining in FY 2026, U.S. Customs and Burder Protection has encountered just 103,028 at the U.S.-Mexico border, compared to 443,671 in FY2025, 2.1 million in FY2024, and 2.4 million in FY2023, CPB data shows.

“Our previously wide open borders have been transformed into the most secure borders in the history of our country, with zero illegal aliens being admitted to the United States in the past 14 months. That is zero,” President Donald Trump said during a prime time address last week. “Nobody thought it was possible. We had the worst border in the history of our country, and now we have the best.”

In Michigan, the largest deportation effort in U.S. history has removed plenty of scammers, killers, rapists, gang members, and child molesters.

In early July, ICE issued a detainer for Valmir Djempsley, a 20-year-old illegal immigrant from Haiti, after police allege he stabbed a coworker to death at a meat processing facility in Coldwater during a dispute.

“This murderer was released into American communities by the Biden Administration,” DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement. “If it weren’t for the reckless open border policies of the Biden Administration, this criminal never would have been in our country in the first place and his victim would still be alive.”

DHS’ “Worst of the Worst” database lists 285 285 illegal immigrants removed from the Great Lakes State with prior convictions for a wide array of heinous crimes.

They include criminals from Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Israel, Cuba, Laos, Iraq, Columbia, Canada, Nigeria, China, Venezuela, Sri Lanka, Burma, Ukraine, Laos, El Salvador, Sudan, Romania, Peru, Pakistan, Ecuador, Somalia, Vietnam, Jordan, Thailand, Ghana, Poland, Cambodia, Iran, India, Spain, Pakistan, Eritrea, Albania, the Ivory Coast, Dominican Republic of the Congo, Nicaragua, Lebanon, Bangladesh, Egypt, Jamaica, Malaysia, and Bhutan.

Prior convictions for those removed involve sex assaults, prostituting a minor, cocaine smuggling, DUIs, aggravated assaults, fraud, drug trafficking, hit and runs, lascivious acts with a minor, burglary, sex offenses, immigration fraud, homicide, smuggling aliens, carrying a concealed weapon, identity theft, property damage, resisting police, drug sales, racketeering, domestic violence, negligent manslaughter, flight to avoid prosecution, resisting police, amphetamine sales, cruelty toward a child, drug possession, fondling a child, possession of stolen property, counterfeiting, obstructing justice, trespassing, shoplifting, robbery, failure to register as a sex offender, prostitution, willful homicide, forceable purse snatching, probation violations, weapon trafficking, possession of burglary tools, rape, sodomy, manufacturing methamphetamines, sexual exploitation of a minor, extortion, kidnapping, computer fraud, intimidation, and other offenses.

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