The number of immigrants deported by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the Salt Lake region more than doubled this fiscal year, according to statistics released by the agency Tuesday.
The region — which includes Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Montana — saw 5,177 arrests of immigrants suspected of being undocumented and 3,550 deportations in the 2017 fiscal year. In the previous year, there were 4,638 arrests and 1,731 deportations.
Nationwide, arrests are up, but border arrests are down, the ICE data shows. Across the nation, 92 percent of the people detained for immigration violations were “removable aliens who had a criminal conviction or a pending criminal charge, were an ICE fugitive, or were an illegal re-entrant.