ICE arrests in the Pittsburgh region reached a high point in July and August at around 140 each month — more than double the number logged during any month for two years prior.
That arrest level appears to have tapered off slightly in September, as the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown approaches the end of its first year.
Since January, there have been at least 948 immigration-related arrests in the Pittsburgh region, defined as a 50-mile radius from Downtown, according to the data, which ends in mid-October. That is more than triple the same period in 2024, during which the agency made 275 arrests.
Prior to President Donald Trump’s inauguration and his Immigration and Customs Enforcement surge, the number of ICE arrests in Allegheny County and nearby counties in a given month was sometimes as low as a dozen or as high as 65. The range this year has been a low of 48 in April before the summer peak, according to data made available by the Deportation Data Project and analyzed by Pittsburgh’s Public Source.
The data shows the vast majority of the ICE arrests as occurring in or close to Pittsburgh and is only more specific in regard to pickups at county jails. Just one of this year’s ICE arrests is listed as occurring at the Allegheny County Jail, with outlying county lockups logging larger tallies, led by Beaver (23), Washington (18) and Butler (10).
The region has not seen the kind of highly publicized ICE surges experienced by numerous other cities, including recent pushes in and around Minneapolis, Charlotte and Chicago.
But Southwestern Pennsylvania hasn’t been ignored by the rapidly expanding agency. The administration’s immigration-related activities have reached the area in many ways throughout the year, including:
ICE’s increased activity has been met locally with vigorous countermeasures, notably including a Rapid Response Network that has frequently deployed volunteers to document enforcement actions. Anti-Trump protests and other activism in the region have sometimes focused tightly on immigration policy, highlighted the importance of immigrants to the economy or included those themes in broad critiques of the administration. Churches, meanwhile, have attempted to serve as spiritual sanctuaries for the region’s Latino population, even as attendance has sometimes been depressed by fear.
Other local effects of administration action to curb the flow of people from other countries to the U.S. include a reduced international student population at Carnegie Mellon University and measures by the University of Pittsburgh and potentially other large employers to adjust to a new fee on visas used by many skilled workers from abroad.
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