Since President Donald Trump took office, agents working out of a Salt Lake City field office increased arrests of suspected illegal immigrants by 24 percent — and doubled the number of people deported.
That’s according to statistics released Friday by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. The agency’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) field office in Salt Lake City covers Utah, Idaho, Montana and Nevada.
That mirrored increases nationally, with ICE reporting that arrests in the past 2018 fiscal year — which ended Sept. 30 — reached the highest levels since 2014.
Trump campaigned promising to get tough on immigration enforcement.