Immigration arrests have skyrocketed in southwest Utah this spring and summer, according to new data released this week.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in St. George made more than 100 arrests in May alone, more than double the average of the first 15 months of President Donald Trump’s second term, new numbers from the Deportation Data Project show.

Here’s how many arrests were made in recent months, according to the new data:

March — 72.

April — 94.

May — 107.

June — 97.

July — 73.

Earlier this month, The Salt Lake Tribune published an analysis of immigration arrests made between January 2025 and March 2026. The Tribune found that arrests in southwest Utah had quadrupled compared to the Biden administration.

With the additional arrests made in spring and summer, arrests are now up sixfold compared to the previous administration.

This graph shows the increase in arrests per month from the latter half of Biden’s term, when the data begins, through July. There’s been another significant increase since the start of 2026 as well, though July saw a downtick.

We also see an increase in arrests since Washington County signed two 287(g) agreements with ICE, which allow the county sheriff’s office to perform immigration arrests.

We now also see an even larger gap since White House border czar Tom Homan announced a pledge that ICE would prioritize targeted operations against national security and public safety threats on Jan. 29. Since that pledge, arrests have significantly increased.

That pledge seemingly has not made immigrants without criminal charges less likely to be arrested. Indeed, the opposite has occurred.

Over half — 54.8% — of those arrested since Homan’s targeted operations pledge had no criminal charges or convictions, but rather civil immigration violations only, according to the DDP data. That’s significantly higher than Trump’s administration arrested before Homan’s pledge: 29.8%.

And whereas 83% of those immigrants arrested in Biden’s administration were convicted criminals, only 38.9% have been since Trump took office a second time.

Polling indicates most Americans oppose deporting all immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.

The Tribune’s analysis

Tribune readers — or those more broadly interested in the activities of ICE — may remember this investigation, which was published on Aug. 17.

In that story, we looked at the more than 1,100 immigration arrests made since Trump took office for a second time, zooming in on the fate of one St. George man, Hipolito, who has since been deported to Mexico.

That story used three data sets. The data ICE had released to the Deportation Data Project via public records requests was only available through March 10.

The Deportation Data Project released new data on Monday, which includes arrests through Aug. 5.

The data released differs from the set analyzed for The Tribune’s original story. Previous data indicated an associated ICE field office for each arrest, but this newer data only sporadically has that information. Without it available, we instead looked at the city in which the arrest was made and filtered to those served by the St. George ICE office. (We found great agreement in this new analysis method and the old one, though, with results usually only being changed by 1% or less.)

The new data released by ICE does not include the field that indicated whether those arrested were convicted of aggravated felonies, standard felonies, or misdemeanors, so we cannot update that analysis from the previous story.