The president’s promise to crack down on illegal immigration is bearing results.
Since the beginning of the Trump presidency, ICE’s immigration arrest rate surged to a 32.6% increase, according to a report by the Washington Post.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 21,362 immigrants, mostly convicted criminals, from January through mid-March, compared to 16,104 during the same period last year, according to statistics requested by The Washington Post.
Of the 21,362, fully three-quarters were illegal immigrants with criminal records.
The ICE field offices who found themselves with the highest arrest numbers were Dallas (North Texas and Oklahoma), Atlanta (including all of Georgia and both Carolinas), and Houston (covering Southeast Texas).
Surprisingly, the statistics for deportations actually showed they are decreasing–down 1.2% from the same time period last year.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed to hire 125 deportation judges to speed up a backlog of cases in a memo released to US Attorneys offices last week, after a visit to the Arizona border.



