Atlanta's ICE field office is 5th for immigrant arrests in U.S.

On the 2024 campaign trail, President Donald Trump promised to dramatically ramp up immigration enforcement.

That has come to pass in Georgia, thanks in part to a recent change in state law mandating closer collaboration between county sheriffs and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

New federal data shows immigration arrests have spiked to 5,670 in Georgia during the first six months of the Trump administration, compared to 1,570 arrests during the last six months of Biden’s presidency.

And Atlanta’s ICE field office — which oversees immigration enforcement in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina — accounts for the fifth-highest number of immigration arrests in the nation. Only field offices in Miami (15,566), New Orleans (11,438), Dallas (10,902) and Houston (10,494)