The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency arrested nearly 20,000 illegal migrants in the Washington, DC, area since January 2025, the Washington Post says.
The arrests ranged throughout D.C. as well as the surrounding areas in Maryland and Virginia from the start of Trump’s second administration through March 20, according to the Post.
While the rate of arrests in D.C. itself has fallen, the arrests have stayed about the same in the surrounding areas, the paper added
The number is an amazing divergence over President Biden’s final year in office when ICE only recorded 3,800 arrests in the area.
Still, the numbers in D.C. would have been higher were it not for another activist judge who intervened in December. U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled that ICE could not arrest illegal migrants without a warrant. The Obama-appointed judge accused ICE of a “systemic failure” to follow the law.