Weekly immigration arrests in Nevada hit a file high earlier this summer time, according to a Nevada Independent evaluation of federal immigration knowledge, even as the Trump administration strikes away from the militaristic, high-profile raids seen earlier this 12 months in states such as Minnesota.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 203 people in Nevada across a two-week span from late June to early July, by far the most people arrested in a two-week period in Nevada on file. This period also saw a important bounce in the p.c of people arrested with no felony file.
One week in June also saw a file quantity of people arrested in the neighborhood, rather than while in custody.
The knowledge confirms anecdotal reports from attorneys and advocates of growing enforcement exercise in Nevada and nationwide. Nevadans for the Common Good, a coalition of faith-based teams and nonprofits, instructed The Indy in June that seven of its members were detained by ICE during a two-week period that month, including three who were picked up during site visitors stops.
The findings are half of the newest release from the Deportation Data Project, an initiative out of the University of California, Berkeley, that publishes knowledge on ICE arrests and detentions accessed through public data requests. This release covers ICE arrest knowledge from mid-March through early August.
While Nevada has so far prevented the large-scale deportation raids seen in states such as California and Minnesota, ICE has still maintained a regular presence in the state, which has one of the highest per capita undocumented populations nationwide, The Indy’s prior analyses confirmed.
“They are looking to have as high numbers of arrests as possible, but with as low a public profile as they can,” said Michael Kagan, director of the UNLV Immigration Clinic.
Nevada’s arrest numbers still pale in comparability to some other states. In Texas, for instance, every day arrests complete almost 400, which is more arrests than Nevada has seen in a single month.
But by Nevada’s requirements, the newest batch of knowledge reveals federal immigration enforcement has not relented.
April, June and July had the three highest quantity of arrests in Nevada, The Indy discovered. Arrests had been largely trending downward from July 2025 through February, but they took off again in the spring.
The spike in arrests this summer time comes after ICE acquired more than $35 billion in June through an omnibus immigration package deal, which will fund the company through the relaxation of Trump’s presidency. There are delicate indicators ICE is trying to broaden in the Las Vegas space, such as its current solicitation to lease parking areas downtown under a discover labeled “surgeparking.”
The company is also on a hiring spree, with 29,000 staff in June, an increase of about 8,000 from the begin of Trump’s time period, The New York Times reported last week.
Increase in arrests of people with no felony file
As has been the case through much of Trump’s second time period, the share of people arrested in Nevada with no felony file has been steadily growing.
In the 5 months coated in the newest knowledge release, 18 p.c of arrests were of people with no felony costs. Under the relaxation of Trump’s second time period, that quantity was 12 p.c. At the same time, the p.c of people with felony convictions fell barely, while the p.c with pending costs elevated.
Still, these numbers differ considerably from the relaxation of the nation. Under Trump’s second time period, about 39 p.c of people arrested by ICE nationwide had no felony file, while about 31 p.c had earlier felony convictions. The Indy’s evaluation discovered.
Even among people with a felony conviction, many are for nonviolent crimes.
In Nevada, about 8 p.c of people’s felony convictions were for violent crimes. That means of the about 5,000 people arrested by ICE in Nevada this 12 months, about 3 p.c had a felony conviction for a violent crime.
During more than two years of ICE arrests under President Joe Biden, there were larger charges of people with convictions for violent crimes.
Where are the arrests taking place?
Although the most publicized ICE arrests occur in the open, the overwhelming majority of arrests in Nevada occur when a particular person is in custody, such as at detention facilities or native jails. Under the Trump administration, about 73 p.c of ICE arrests occurred when a particular person was already in custody, a barely larger price from the latter half of the Biden administration.
However, the tides are slowly turning.
In the newest release of arrest knowledge, more than 30 p.c of arrests were “at-large,” that means they occurred out in the neighborhood. This was about a 25 p.c increase from the relaxation of the Trump administration.
During the week of June 22, 70 arrests occurred “at-large,” the highest quantity on file. That week also had the highest quantity of complete arrests.
In distinction to the summer time spike in ICE arrests in Nevada, immigration enforcement-related arrests by native law enforcement deputized by ICE were low.
The partnership program, recognized as 287(g), deputizes law enforcement to carry out immigration enforcement duties within their jails, permitting officers to execute ICE arrest warrants and maintain people for longer so ICE can decide them up for long-term detention. Five companies in Nevada already have partnerships through this program — most notably the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department — and the Nevada Department of Corrections quietly joined the program in July, increasing its skill to coordinate with ICE on immigration arrests.
However, the ICE knowledge reveals 24 people have been arrested through the 287(g) program under Trump, making up less than 0.5 p.c of all arrests since he took workplace.
This pales in comparability to other states. Several states with management significantly pleasant to Trump’s immigration insurance policies have seen more than 20 p.c of their arrests come through these partnership packages. West Virginia leads the pack at more than 60 p.c.
Nevada ranks thirty fourth in share of arrests through the 287(g) program.