Two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents order observers to stand back as they detain several people during a traffic stop on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, in Tucson, Arizona.
More people were arrested by immigration authorities in Arizona in July 2026 than any time in the previous four years, according to data visualized by the Deportation Data Project.
The starkest window into the number of immigration arrests comes from comparing the number of people arrested in July 2023 — 328 people — with July 2026, when immigration authorities arrested 2,171 people.
The data was collected and visualized by the Deportation Data Project, a group at the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA that uses litigation to obtain, analyze and visualize public records.
Tucson and the rest of Arizona fall under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Phoenix field office, which oversees the entire state.
In recent months, Tucson community members have rallied in support of DACA recipient Karla Toledo and raised concerns about medical neglect in detention.
The Arizona data from the deportation project also shows the vast majority of people arrested under the Trump administration have either no criminal conviction, or have been convicted of a nonviolent crime.
This article first appeared on AZ Luminaria and is republished here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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