What is the percentage of the Hispanic or Latino population that has been taken into ICE custody in Syracuse, New York
Executive summary
There is no single publicly reported percentage in the supplied sources for “the percentage of the Hispanic or Latino population that has been taken into ICE custody in Syracuse.” Available data show Syracuse’s Hispanic or Latino share of the city population is about 10.3% (15,086 people) [1]. Local reporting and ICE releases document rising numbers of ICE arrests in the Syracuse/Onondaga County area (for example, at least 68 detainees in Onondaga County in the first half of 2025), but those reports do not compute or publish a percentage of the Hispanic/Latino population taken into ICE custody in Syracuse [2].
1. What the numbers we do have actually say
Census-based demographic estimates put Syracuse’s Hispanic or Latino population at roughly 10.32% of the city’s total, about 15,086 people according to a 2025 update drawing on U.S. Census/ACS estimates [1]. Separately, researchers and local reporting show ICE enforcement activity in the Syracuse area increased in 2025: one compilation of agency records counted at least 68 people detained in Onondaga County in the first half of 2025 versus 56 for all of 2024 [2]. Those two figures exist in the same record set provided here, but no source links them to produce a percentage of the Hispanic population that was detained [1] [2].
2. Why you cannot reliably convert arrests into a “percentage of the Hispanic population” from these sources
The sources provided do not supply disaggregated custody figures by race/ethnicity for Syracuse. ICE’s national custody and detention tables are published but the excerpts here do not include a local, race/ethnicity breakdown for Syracuse [3] [4]. Local reporting cites aggregate counts of detainees in Onondaga County and of arrests in New York state, but does not state the racial or ethnic makeup of those detained in a way that would support calculating what share of Syracuse’s Hispanic population was taken into custody [2] [5]. Therefore a precise percentage cannot be produced from the available reporting.
3. What researchers and journalists are documenting about enforcement trends
National and regional analyses show intensified interior enforcement in 2025 and highlight Latino/Latinx communities are frequently affected. National ICE statistics and watchdog analyses indicate many detainees lack serious criminal convictions beyond immigration or traffic issues, and some advocacy and academic groups report increases in street arrests of Latinos [3] [6] [7]. Local Syracuse reporting documents specific sweeps and a rise in arrests in 2025, but it stops short of publishing ethnicity breakdowns tied to the city’s total Hispanic population [2] [5].
4. Competing perspectives and limitations in sources
ICE’s own publications emphasize custody management and population-level data but do not, in the supplied snippets, publish a city-level ethnicity percentage for detainees [3] [4]. Academic, advocacy and journalistic sources focus on transparency and community impact—TRAC, the Deportation Data Project and local reporters have produced more granular arrest counts—but the excerpts provided here either cover different geographies or omit the race/ethnicity linkage needed to calculate the requested percentage [8] [9] [2]. In short, ICE emphasizes operational context; independent researchers emphasize transparency and community impact; neither in these excerpts offers the exact statistic you asked for.
5. How one could get the specific percentage (what’s missing and where to look next)
To compute the percentage you asked for, you would need: (a) the number of individuals from Syracuse (or Onondaga County residents living in Syracuse city limits) taken into ICE custody over a defined period, and (b) the number of Hispanic/Latino residents in the same geographic boundary for the same period. The supplied sources give the latter (city Hispanic population) and some detention counts for the county, but not detention counts disaggregated by residency and ethnicity [1] [2]. Useful next steps would be to request local race/ethnicity custody breakdowns from ICE’s detention statistics portal or the Deportation Data Project / TRAC datasets, or to query Syracuse-area reporting for any follow-up articles that list detainee demographics [4] [9].
6. Bottom line for readers
Available sources do not mention a published percentage of Syracuse’s Hispanic or Latino population taken into ICE custody. You can cite Syracuse’s Hispanic population share (~10.3%) [1] and the documented rise in local ICE detentions in 2025 (e.g., 68 detainees in Onondaga County in H1 2025) [2], but no provided source ties those figures together to produce the exact percentage you requested [1] [2].