WASHINGTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, arrested more than 10,000 people from June 25 to July 1 as the Trump regime escalated its nationwide deportation campaign and pushed federal agents toward a standing quota of 2,000 arrests a day.
The late June surge marked one of the sharpest accelerations of immigration arrests since Trump returned to office. The scale far exceeds the agency’s earlier 2026 pace. In December, ICE averaged 1,283 arrests a day, or about 8,981 arrests a week. In January, when the regime flooded Minneapolis and the surrounding region with federal immigration agents, arrests averaged about 1,212 a day, or about 8,484 a week. In February, after mass outrage and repression in Minnesota, arrests fell to 1,057 a day, or about 7,399 a week.
By July, the regime had set 2,000 arrests a day as the new operational benchmark. That amounts to 14,000 arrests a week, nearly double February’s average and far above the pace maintained during earlier high-profile sweeps. Stephen Miller, the regime’s fascist Deputy Chief of Staff, had previously pushed for 3,000 arrests a day, or 21,000 a week.
The new phase has been carried out with less publicity than earlier crackdowns. ICE has moved away from the most visible citywide raids and toward quieter, dispersed operations across the country. Arrest teams have operated through immigration courts, check-ins, workplaces, streets, jails and local police cooperation.
Detention numbers rose alongside the arrests. Approximately 39,000 people entered ICE concentration camps in June, up from roughly 30,000 per month since February. The increase places new pressure on the carceral complex: jails, prison operators, transport systems, immigration courts and camp guards. It also expands the stress focused on those opposed to rising Fascism: rapid response networks, revolutionary activists, and families searching for loved ones affected by state terror.
ICE’s public language about “criminals” is a shield for mass repression, a weapon used by the regime to mark whole communities as disposable and justify federal agents stalking neighborhoods, courthouses and workplaces.
This terror campaign has expanded after months of confrontation between federal agents and the masses. In Minneapolis, the regime’s Operation Metro Surge became a political crisis after immigration officers murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti during protests against the crackdown. The state drew down the most visible part of the operation, but arrests did not end.
The late June surge demonstrates that the deportation campaign remains a national operation of mass kidnapping. The Trump regime is using ICE as an armed instrument of class rule against immigrant workers, oppressed communities, and the multinational working class. Its purpose is to discipline labor, divide neighborhoods, strengthen federal police power, and normalize masked paramilitary agents occupying neighborhoods.
ICE, and all forces of militarization, fascistization, and the Old State, must be driven out of the cities, towns, villages and countryside, from the courts and workplaces to the schools, health centers and streets of the masses. The enemies of the people must be resisted wherever and whenever they appear, their efforts thwarted at every opportunity. The arrested must be defended, the disappeared must be found and the deportation machine must be crushed by the organized power of mass resistance.
