{"id":6059,"date":"2026-10-18T01:54:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/18\/tom-homan-touts-historic-surge-in-ice-arrests\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T01:54:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:54:41","slug":"tom-homan-touts-historic-surge-in-ice-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/18\/tom-homan-touts-historic-surge-in-ice-arrests\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Homan Touts Historic Surge in ICE Arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 October 18, 2026 (STL.News) White House border czar Tom Homan is highlighting a dramatic increase in federal immigration arrests as President Donald Trump\u2018s administration expands enforcement operations across the United States, with reported figures showing that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) significantly increased arrests during the summer of 2026. Homan has described the increase as historic, citing nearly 200,000 interior immigration arrests between June and September. The figures reflect an aggressive enforcement strategy that has become a defining domestic policy priority of Trump\u2019s second administration. <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/-0R1fhfAi4I\/maxresdefault.webp)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u2018HISTORIC\u2019: Tom Homan touts HUGE ICE arrest surge\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-0R1fhfAi4I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported that ICE<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/tom-homan-touts-historic-surge-in-ice-arrests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 October 18, 2026 (STL.News) White House border czar Tom Homan is highlighting a dramatic increase in federal immigration arrests as President Donald Trump\u2018s administration expands enforcement operations across the United States, with reported figures showing that U.S&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6061,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions\/6061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}