ICE Breaks Arrest Records Amid White House Pressure
Change in tactics noted
US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) broke records for arrests on a single day on both June 3 & 4, 2025, Fox News reported. On Wednesday, June 4, 2025, ICE reported a record-setting 2,368 arrests, up from an average of 1,600 arrests the week before, which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) boasted about on social media.
Although the agency is still falling short of the 3,000 daily arrests demanded last month by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, CBS News notes the surge has resulted in ICE arrests topping 100,000 for the first time since Trump took office earlier this year.
One reason arrests had fallen short of the mark was that ICE had been targeting illegal aliens with criminal records (who take time to locate and often require additional manpower) for arrests.
Numerous media reports from around the country indicate that the current surge is being fueled, in part, by requesting migrants who have been cooperating with authorities (and are more easily located) to appear for a hearing voluntarily, and arresting them at the courthouse when they comply.
In its social media, however, the agencies involved in the current surge emphasize arrests occurring in the workplace rather than at the courthouse:
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Jack Beavers
It is all a war of words, with the left, calling them immigrants and normal people calling them illegal aliens. As long as there are 20 million or 30 million illegal aliens, my friends and I cannot ask for higher wages, because there is always an illegal alien who do the same job for less money. That’s what it comes down to for both democrats and republicans, namely, cheap labor. So yes, send them back, both the criminals and non-criminals. Because even the so-called immigrants are bleeding us dry, since they get free schooling, free food, free housing, free medical, paid for by those of us who are already here, legally, paid for by those of us who went through the process of getting here legally, waiting in line, instead of sneaking under the fence.
Arrests are just a start. There must be follow through.