Various communities in the United States registered 1,516 encounters with agents from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the course of just one week, according to a report released this Saturday by Telemundo 51 based on data from the iceout.org platform.
The report also indicates that for at least three weeks in August, the cities with the highest reported activity were Miami, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, and Seattle, reflecting the sustained intensity of immigration operations in various parts of the country.
Iceout.org is the digital platform of the community project People Over Papers, an initiative that allows citizens to report and track sightings of ICE agents in real time through a collaborative map.
The reports received by the platform are verified by moderators before being published, and the system employs the SALUTE method — an acronym in English for size, activity, location, unit, time, and equipment — to standardize the information received.
The initiative operates with more than 40 volunteers spread across different time zones and was relaunched under the domain iceout.org after being removed without prior notice from the Padlet platform for alleged violations of its content policies.
Her co-founder, identified only as "Celeste" for security reasons, has publicly reported the threats received as a result of her work. "I never imagined that ICE would go to such extremes," she stated according to Univision.
The balance of documented encounters is framed within a sustained escalation of migration operations under Donald Trump's second term.
In August 2026, the Department of Homeland Security recorded approximately 50,925 arrests, a new monthly record that surpassed the 49,571 detentions documented in July, which in turn had broken the record from June, when ICE processed 39,563 individuals.
Miami has been the epicenter of this activity in South Florida. The local ICE office led nationwide immigration arrests with an average of 120 detentions per day and over 41,000 arrests between January 2025 and April 2026.
Between August 2025 and August 23, 2026, there were 31,399 migrants arrested in Florida under local collaboration agreements with ICE. In the city of Miami, there were 451, of which 131 were Cubans.
Precisely, the detentions of Cubans by ICE increased by 463% between late 2024 and early 2026, according to an analysis from the Cato Institute. As of January 2026, there were 42,084 Cubans with final deportation orders in the United States.
At the end of June, ICE surpassed 10,000 arrests in just five days, reaching an average of 2,000 arrests per day, the operational standard set by the Trump administration as a target for mass deportation.
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