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ATLANTA – – The enforcement of the immigration intensified as part of the second term of President Donald Trump, with almost half of all US immigration and customs authorities (ICE) arrested in June 2025. In Georgia, 42% of the arrests this month, involved people without documented convictions.
Note from the publisher: For the purpose of this article and the statistics, criminal crimes cannot be obtained outside the entry into the country without legal permission. Other violations of immigration generally mean violations, such as: B. exaggeration of a visa. However, offenses such as a traffic sticket can also contain offenses.
Journalist arrested
What we know:
The experienced reporter of Metro Atlanta, Mario Guevara, remains in ice custody after the arrest in June while covering an immigration protest. His detention has triggered debates among lawyers and civil servants about the shift in the enforcement priorities.
Georgia currently occupies fourth place in the nation in 2025, with more than 4,000 fears. Deportations have also primarily increased in Latin American countries.
Relatives: Lawyers give updates about the journalist, which is held by ICE in Atlanta
What you say:
Community members gathered on Tuesday in Georgia State Capitol to support Mario Guevara, a long -time Spanish -speaking journalist who has been arrested by ICE since June. Guevara was arrested when he reported on a protest in Dekalb County. Although an immigration judge granted him a bond, ICE lawyers appealed against the decision and prevented his release.
Guevara's family and lawyer say that he has no criminal history and should not have been arrested. However, ICE said that the arrest is not related to his job and in a press release on June 30 that he is illegal in the country. At the time of publication, no criminal charges by ICE were listed.
“He has no criminal history and should never have been arrested,” said his lawyer. Guevara's daughter described the ordeal as a “nightmare” that destroyed her family.
The other side:
ICE denies to do Guevara for his journalism. In a press release on June 30, the agency clearly stated that “the accusation that Guevara was arrested because he is a journalist was completely wrong.” The publication only found that Guevara is illegal in the United States without mentioning a criminal history.
The case has become a symbol of a growing problem: a shift in ice policies that increasingly aims without papers without criminal convictions or pending charges. The arrest of Guevara together with the recent controversy in connection with the immigration of the abrupt early retirement of Martas CEO and the arrest of 4 men last week with a car wash in Brookhaven
Click here to obtain information on arrests from September 1, 2023 to June 26, 2025 throughout the country.
ICE implementation escalates under Trump's immigration boost
What we know:
The case comes in the middle of wider changes to the immigration enforcement. According to the federal reports, ICE has increased its daily arrest from 1,000 to 3,000 since May 2025. This shift has led to an increase of what ICE calls “collateral arrests” that can include people who are initially not targeted during the enforcement process.
Nationwide data from ICE state:
- In the first 50 days of the new administration, more than 32,800 arrests occurred.
- 47% of the persons arrested in June did not have prior criminal convictions of 23% in May.
In Georgia, 42% of the arrests were classified as not criminal in June. ICE officers have stated that many of the persons arrested without criminal records may still have indictment for immigration laws. In a recent interview with Newsnation, the incumbent ICE director Todd Lyons said that “70% of the charges that were not criminated have not yet been charged”, and argued that early interventions could help prevent future crimes.
Arrests in Georgia
Georgia immigration arrests after year and criminal offense category
According to the numbers:
Data from the deportation data project show a strong increase in overall arrests in 2024 and 2025, especially for people with pending criminal charges. The arrests for other immigration injuries also rose significantly in 2025, almost tripled from 2023 and doubles from 2024, 6 months a year.
2023 arrests (737 in total):
- Convised criminals: 450 or 61.05%
- Outstanding criminal charges: 102 or 13.84%
- Other violations of immigration: 185 or 25.11%
2024 arrests (2,314 total):
- Senior criminals: 1,468 or 63.45%
- Outstanding criminal complaints: 550 or 23.77%
- Other violations of immigration: 296 or 12.79%
2025 arrests (4,002 January to June):
- Convised criminals: 1,496 or 37.38%
- Outstanding criminal charges: 1,589 or 39.69%
- Other violations of immigration: 917 or 22.92%
A closer look at 2025 in Georgia
According to the numbers:
So far, a total of 4,002 people have been arrested in Georgia in 2025. Here is a breakdown after month and category:
Summary:
- Outstanding criminal arrests make the largest proportion of the first half of 2025 in almost 40%.
- Convised criminal arrests follow 37.4%closely.
- Other violations of immigration make up almost 23% of the total arrests.
✅ January (total: 383)
Convised criminal: 186 or 48.57%
Outstanding criminal: 142 or 37.08%
Other violations of immigration: 55 or 14.35%
✅ February (total: 606)
Convised criminal: 256 or 42.24%
Outstanding criminal: 251 or 41.42%
Other violations of immigration: 99 or 16.34%
✅ March (total: 698)
Convised criminal: 297 or 42.55%
Outstanding criminal: 297 or 42.55%
Other violations of immigration: 104 or 14.90%
✅ April (total: 641)
Convised criminal: 262 or 40.87%
Pending criminal: 280 or 43.68%
Other violations of immigration: 99 or 15.45%
✅ May (total: 751)
Convised criminal: 261 or 34.75%
Outstanding criminal: 314 or 41.81%
Other violations of immigration: 176 or 23.44%
✅ June (total: 923)
Convised criminal: 234 or 25.36%
Outstanding criminal: 305 or 33.05%
Other violations of immigration: 384 or 41.59%
Ice defends arrests of non -criminal
The other side:
The incumbent ICE director Todd Lyon recently defended the arrest of non-criminals during an interview with Newsnation by not yet charging 70% of the persons classified as non-criminal charges and that early interventions prevent crimes.
According to this year's figures for the state of Georgia, 39.69% of the arrests between January and June have listed people with pending fees and 22.91% as “other immigration losses”.
A look at the deportation numbers
According to the numbers:
The deportation figures are also increasing nationwide and in Georgia. Here is a closer look at the numbers for 2023-2025.
Deportation summary for Georgia (2023–2025)
Total deportations followed:
The data shows consistent deportations every year, whereby in 2023, 2024 and 2025 contribute to the total amount. The deportation figures come from confirmed “deceased date” instruction entries in the arrest documents.
Deportations after year:
- 2023: 595 people deported
- 2024: 984 people deported
- 2025 (YTD): 644 people deported
Top countries of deportation:
Most of the people deported were sent to Latin American nations. Here are the top goals:
- Mexico – 1,736 deportations
- Guatemala – 783 deportations
- Honduras – 424 deportations
- Colombia – 136 deportations
- El Salvador – 122 deportations
- Dominican Republic – 43 deportations
- Nicaragua – 41 deportations
- Venezuela – 28 deportations
- Ecuador – 26 deportations
- Haiti – 25 deportations
In Mexico alone, over 50% of all deportions recorded in this data record make up.
According to the Washington Post, over 60% (56,893) of the undocumented immigrant had no criminal conviction from the country (93,818) on June 11, 2025. In addition, many of the 40% of those with a criminal register (36,925) deported non -violent crimes.
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In the rest of the country
What you say:
According to a press release from the White House on Tuesday afternoon, President Trump makes his promise to free municipalities with threats to public security. The following successes were listed by the White House:
- South Carolina: Arrests have more than tripled, with 88% people have already been convicted or accused of.
- Michigan: ICE arrest has increased 154%.
- Minnesota: Arrests have doubled and the deportation time plans were set in half.
- Colorado and Wyoming: The enforcement has increased almost five times.
- Ohio: Arrests have more than tripled.
- Nevada: Arrests have risen by almost 300%.
- Tennessee: The daily arrests have more than doubled, mainly with convictions or pending fees.
- Virginia and Maryland: The arrests have increased by 470% and 290%.
- North Carolina: The daily arrests have increased by 160%.
- Alabama: Arrests have more than doubled.
- Utah and the surrounding western states: The monthly arrests have tripled in eight states, including Arizona, Idaho, Nevada and California.
- Texas, Florida, California: The arrests are 92%, 219%or. 123%increased compared to 2024.
- Southarizona: The ICE enforcement has “increased dramatically”.
- Chicago and San Diego: Arrests have tripled and quadrupled compared to the same period last year.
Texas has had the most with around 23,000 arrests since January 1. Florida follows with around 11,300, California has about 6,200 arrests and Georgia is in the fourth highest with just more than 4,000 arrests.
Other conditions with a significant jump in ice arrest in 2025 are Virginia (3,200 plus); New York (2,900 plus); Arizona (2,800 plus); Massachusetts (2,700 plus); and Tennessee (2,700 plus).
Summary
Big Picture View:
The enforcement of immigration has become an increasingly hot button problem as part of the Trump government, which affects the concern between citizens, lawyers and local leaders across the country.
Since the number of ice arrest increases – in particular those who involve individuals without defined criminal records – fear that the focus has shifted from public security to mass shift. Supporters of the stricter enforce say that it is necessary to maintain the immigration law, while others fear that this will lead to the detention and removal of people who do not pose a threat, such as: B. residents, workers and journalists. The growing gap reflects a broader national debate on immigration policy, civil rights and the role of federal authorities in local communities.
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