What is the most recent official DHS/ICE demographic breakdown of agency staff by race and ethnicity?
Executive summary
The most recent official, component-level demographic breakdown for ICE staff available in the reporting provided is contained in the Department of Homeland Security’s FY2018 Inclusive Diversity Annual Report, which includes race and ethnicity data for DHS components including ICE (but is dated) [1]. No later, ICE‑specific, official race-and-ethnicity table was found in the supplied sources; DHS’s EEO office and ICE’s public pages exist as entry points for updated data but the provided snippets do not include a newer ICE-specific breakdown [2] [3].
1. What the official record shows (and where it lives)
The DHS Inclusive Diversity Annual Report for FY2018 is the latest explicitly referenced DHS document in the supplied reporting that highlights component-level ethnic, racial, and gender data and specifically calls out efforts and metrics for ICE’s Office of Diversity and Civil Rights and ICE human resources activities [1]. That report is an archived DHS publication and, according to the excerpted material, “highlights the ethnic, racial, and gender data that illustrates the Inclusive Diversity story” for DHS components including ICE, which makes it the most recent DHS document cited here that purports to give a component breakdown [1].
2. What the supplied sources do not provide — and why that matters
The materials furnished do not include a contemporary ICE-only table of staff by race and ethnicity for years after FY2018: the DHS EEO Management Section is responsible for EEO initiatives across components and would be the logical source for updated demographic tables, but the supplied EEO page snippets do not include a current ICE demographic table [2]. ICE’s official website and ICE statistics pages focus on mission, operations and enforcement metrics and in the excerpts do not present a public, up‑to‑date race/ethnicity staff breakdown [3] [4]. Therefore, based on the provided reporting, a precise numeric “most recent” ICE racial/ethnic breakdown beyond FY2018 cannot be reproduced here.
3. Recent workforce changes that affect interpretation
Independent reporting shows substantial workforce growth at ICE in 2025 — more than doubling to over 22,000 officers and agents from about 10,000 the prior year — which dramatically alters the agency’s composition and therefore the relevance of any older demographic snapshot [5]. That hiring surge means any FY2018 percentages or headcounts would likely no longer reflect current staff composition, and the provided sources show no official component-level update to reconcile that expansion with race/ethnicity data [5] [1].
4. Third‑party estimates and academic studies — useful but not official
Third‑party aggregators and academic research cited in the search results provide context: Zippia’s demographic pages offer estimates (for example, a 2023/2025 estimate that “White” is the most common ethnicity among immigration officers) but these are not ICE or DHS official statistics and should be treated as non‑official syntheses of public data [6] [7]. Academic work cited (University of Notre Dame research) documents substantial Latinx representation in ICE ranks historically and explores recruiting dynamics, but those studies are focused analyses rather than authoritative, agency‑released demographic tables [8].
5. Conclusion: the direct answer and the reporting limitation
The direct answer based on the supplied reporting is: the most recent officially published DHS component-level race and ethnicity data cited here comes from DHS’s FY2018 Inclusive Diversity Annual Report, which includes ICE‑specific ethnic and racial data [1]; however, no newer official ICE breakdown by race and ethnicity is present in the supplied sources, and a major 2025 workforce expansion reported by Government Executive means that any FY2018 figures are likely outdated [5]. For an up‑to‑date, official ICE staff breakdown by race and ethnicity, DHS’s EEO Management Section or ICE’s human capital offices are the responsible sources, but the provided snippets do not include a current table to quote [2] [3].