Newly obtained data shows just through July of this year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested about three times as many people in San Diego as compared to all of 2024. Those arrests in San Diego have grown at a higher rate than nationwide, the numbers show, driven by a major spike in arrests of those without a criminal record.

NBC 7 Investigates obtained the Department of Homeland Security data via a Freedom of Information Act request. The agency did not respond to request for comment.

The numbers show that in all of 2024, ICE arrested 603 people in San Diego. From January through the end of July this year, that figure rose to 1,990 — more than three times as many people, in five fewer months.

Last year, 155 of those 603 arrests in San Diego were people without a criminal

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