# US immigration agents arrested more than 49,500 people in July

https://mins.news/en/item/32833

- Al Jazeera, 2026-08-26 08:55 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/26/us-immigration-agents-arrested-more-than-49500-people-in-july?traffic_source=rss

> US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 49,571 people in July, the highest monthly total since Donald Trump began his second term. The figure was about 15 percent higher than June’s and 70 percent above February’s, with nearly 20,000 arrests in Texas and Florida.

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