The number of reported Immigration and Customs Enforcement detentions and arrests started to spike in Maine and across the country in the weeks before a Colombian man was shot and killed in Biddeford on Monday, according to advocates and data reports.

ICE is on pace to arrest more people in July than any other month of President Donald Trump’s second term, The Washington Post reported. More than 1,400 people have been arrested by the agency nationwide so far this month, according to federal data obtained by the paper. That’s about 82 people each day.

That data does not differentiate arrests by state, but it matches what Maine advocates say they are seeing on the ground.

An average of two Mainers a day have been arrested by ICE since May, according to the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and data from the organization’s ICE activity hotline.

“On the low end of the average, we’ve had about eight (arrests) a week. On the high end of the average, we’ve had about 10,” MIRC policy manager Ruben Torres said. “That’s about double what we were seeing before May.”

July has marked a sharp uptick in the number of detentions in Maine, according to data from the hotline. At least six people have been detained this month, the most in a single month since a surge of immigration enforcement in the state earlier this year.

The hotline data is not comprehensive, Torres noted, as it relies on people witnessing and calling in to report detentions. ICE also has not publicly reported arrest, detention or deportation data since April, The Marshall Project reported Friday.

“We are still seeing detentions in the wake of this week’s shooting. There was one detention the day after, and there was a detention reported today,” Torres said.

Both people were detained in Biddeford, he said, where 26-year-old Colombian immigrant Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero was shot dead in the street by an ICE agent early Monday morning.

Guerrero’s killing has reignited and highlighted the simmering anxiety Maine’s immigrant communities have felt since ICE’s surge in the state reportedly concluded months ago.

What ICE dubbed “Operation Catch of the Day” began in late January as part of the Trump administration’s effort to increase immigration-related arrests and deportations nationwide.

ICE has hired some 12,000 new agents since Trump’s second inauguration, according to a report released Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union. The agency allegedly loosened training requirements and hiring standards for new recruits in order to meet that number, the report said.

“The result of these changes has led to violence throughout the country, including widespread terror during ‘Operation Catch of the Day’ and this week’s killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford at the hands of ICE,” said Samuel Crankshaw, a spokesperson for the ACLU of Maine.

More than 1,400 “targets” had been identified in Maine and over 200 people were arrested during the weeklong operation in January, the Department of Homeland Security said. ICE agents were accused of using excessive force and misrepresenting people’s criminal histories during the surge.

Many of ICE’s arrests in January and February were made in Lewiston and southern Maine cities, said Torres, with the immigrant rights coalition. Between March and May, most reports of ICE activity came from rural areas in central and northern Maine, he said.

But since then, agents again appear to be making more arrests in population centers, Torres said. Residents in Biddeford, where Guerrero was shot and killed, said they had noted an increased ICE presence in the weeks leading up to the shooting.

“There’s sightings every day in Biddeford. I had a friend who was transporting an immigrant neighbor and was stopped by ICE, and the woman was pulled from her car,” said Holly Culloton, a member of Biddeford Saco for Racial Justice, a mutual aid organization.

“They’re in and about Biddeford in several neighborhoods, it’s not just the downtown area. They’re casing every neighborhood,” she added. “It’s happening constantly.”

Staff Writer Rachel Estabrook contributed to this story.