The San Antonio ICE field office ranked fourth in the nation for arrests this year, making more arrests than the St. Paul, Minnesota, office, where a federal immigration crackdown drew national attention, according to a New York Times analysis of federal data.
The Times analysis revealed that four field offices arrested more people than the St. Paul office from mid-December through March 10: Miami, Dallas, Atlanta and San Antonio.
The Minnesota operation followed the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, two U.S. citizens fatally shot by federal immigration agents, and helped drive a sharp increase in arrests there. Even so, St. Paul still trailed those four offices during the same period, the Times found.
Overall, San Antonio ranked seventh in the nation by total arrests since early 2025, with 22,240. That total included 16,380 arrests in 2025 and another 5,860 from Dec. 19, 2025, through March 10, 2026.
ICE field offices in Miami, Dallas, New Orleans, Houston, Atlanta and Chicago were the only ones to record more arrests during that period, according to the Times analysis.
ICE arrest rates have varied widely by region, with some areas posting increases despite not being the focus of high-profile enforcement operations, according to the analysis. Nationwide, arrests have averaged more than 1,100 a day this year, up from about 600 a day last spring, despite a slight dip in recent weeks.
Measured per capita, San Antonio also ranked among the Texas field offices with arrest rates higher than St. Paul’s, along with Harlingen and El Paso.
ICE divides its enforcement work into 25 field office areas, some covering cities and nearby counties and others spanning multiple states. The San Antonio field office covers Central Texas, according to ICE’s website.
Jason Houser, ICE’s chief of staff during the Biden administration, told the Times the data suggests immigration enforcement rose in places where officers were not temporarily reassigned to other operations.