ICE officers and agents arrested roughly 50,000 people in August, according to a senior Department of Homeland Security official familiar with the preliminary arrest data. That number is on par with July’s number, which was the highest single monthly arrest total during the second Trump administration.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is in the midst of a nationwide arrest surge that is not as visible as aggressive enforcement efforts earlier in the year, when the Border Patrol was going city by city, culminating in the shooting deaths of two American citizens in Minneapolis.Arrests fell sharply in February and March but then began to rise in May. June and July both had record ICE arrests, according to ICE arrest data.