Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — often dressed in plainclothes — are now arresting immigrants at courthouses nationwide, sometimes moments after their hearings end. Why it matters: The courthouse crackdown is part of a sweeping Trump administration effort to fast-track removals and increase the number of deportations this year — a strategy that's dramatically expanding who gets targeted and how.

Arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during President Trump's second term topped 100,000 this week, as federal agents intensified efforts to detain unauthorized immigrants in courthouses, worksites and communities across the U.S., internal government data obtained by CBS News shows.

As Donald Trump revamps his promised nationwide crackdown on immigration, federal authorities are taking more aggressive measures to detain immigrants.

Many of the people arrested at appointments had been released under a program for those deemed not to be threats to public safety.

Former officials said the Trump administration’s push for the agency to detain record numbers of undocumented immigrants increases the chances of mistakes.

The latest arrests suggest tensions are increasing ahead of the weekend, when more demonstrations are planned.

In emails sent to rank-and-file agents last weekend, leaders suggested that agents get creative to detain more suspects.

Protests against President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown and ICE raids have emerged across the U.S., including in Iowa. Here's what to know.

The motion is part of a lawsuit challenging the administration's expansion of the process which allows the government to quickly expel migrants.

The deputy marshal was detained because he "fit the general description of a subject being sought by ICE," according to the U.S. Marshals Service.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement made the highest number of arrests in a single day in its history on Tuesday, detaining more than 2,200 people.