What DHS or ICE reports provide official arrest counts for FY2023, FY2024, and FY2025?
Executive summary
Three official government products carry the weight of "official" ICE/DHS arrest counts: ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) statistics and broader ICE statistics pages, DHS’s Office of Homeland Security Statistics (OHSS) monthly immigration enforcement tables, and the ICE Annual Report (which summarizes fiscal-year totals)—but coverage differs by year and FY2025 remains only partially published in the sources reviewed (ICE/ERO stats; OHSS monthly tables; ICE FY2024 annual report) [1] [2] [3].
1. The canonical DHS/ICE reports that provide arrest counts
ICE’s own statistics hub is the primary source for arrest totals and breakdowns for ICE components, listing ERO and HSI arrests and related enforcement metrics (ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Statistics / ICE statistics) [1]. DHS’s OHSS monthly immigration enforcement tables compile encounters, arrests, book‑ins and book‑outs, detention and removals on a monthly basis and are the official DHS statistical series for month‑by‑month enforcement counts (OHSS monthly tables) [2]. Separately, ICE publishes an Annual Report that aggregates fiscal‑year activity—FY2024’s annual report and press release provide ICE’s narrative and totals for that fiscal year (ICE FY2024 Annual Report) [3].
2. Where to find FY2023 official arrest counts
For FY2023, the authoritative counts are obtainable in ICE’s statistics releases and in DHS’s OHSS monthly tables that span the fiscal year; both sources record arrests and encounters by month and component so users can sum or cross‑check totals [1] [2]. The ICE statistics pages historically host endpoint datasets and summary tables that ICE identifies as its official enforcement and removal figures for each fiscal year (ICE statistics) [1]. If a single FY2023 headline number is needed, the OHSS monthly tables provide the underlying monthly book‑ins/book‑outs and arrest figures that underpin ICE’s fiscal aggregations [2].
3. Where to find FY2024 official arrest counts (and a commonly cited headline number)
FY2024 is explicitly summarized in ICE’s archived FY2024 Annual Report and release, which describes ERO activity and provides the fiscal‑year totals that the agency reports publicly (ICE FY2024 Annual Report) [3]. Independent aggregators such as USAFacts have used ICE data to produce headline totals (e.g., 149,070 total ICE arrests in FY2024 with breakdowns between administrative ERO arrests and criminal arrests across ERO and HSI), but that figure is a secondary compilation derived from ICE’s public datasets rather than a separate DHS proclamation [4]. For the official, agency‑reported numbers, the ICE statistics page and the FY2024 Annual Report should be treated as the primary sources [1] [3].
4. FY2025: partial official data, where to look, and limitations
As of the available reporting, FY2025 does not yet have a single finalized ICE annual report presented in these sources; instead, ICE and partners have released partial fiscal‑year data and updates. The Deportation Data Project (which republishes and curates ICE dataset releases) published ICE arrest data through mid‑October 2025, offering granular, near‑real‑time arrest tallies that cover most of FY2025 but are a dataset release rather than a finalized annual report (Deportation Data Project) [5]. ICE’s statistics page is updated periodically (the site snapshot here was updated May 30, 2025) and DHS news releases announce enforcement actions and campaign totals episodically, but users should expect FY2025 official annual totals to be formalized later in an ICE annual report or OHSS fiscal‑year compilations [1] [6]. In short: FY2025 official counts are available in part via ICE dataset releases and the Deportation Data Project, but a consolidated FY2025 annual total from ICE/DHS was not present in the reviewed sources [5] [1].
5. Practical guidance, caveats and why numbers differ
Researchers must note definitional splits—ICE distinguishes administrative arrests (primarily ERO) from criminal arrests (ERO criminal arrests and HSI criminal arrests), and aggregations differ depending on whether one combines ERO and HSI or reports them separately; USAFacts illustrates this breakdown for FY2024 [4]. Monthly OHSS tables enable verification and time‑series construction but require summation and attention to book‑ins versus encounter terminology [2]. The Deportation Data Project is useful for near‑real‑time FY2025 analysis but is a compiled release of ICE data rather than a stylized annual report [5]. Where the reviewed sources are silent about a consolidated FY2025 annual total, this analysis does not assert its existence—users should consult ICE’s statistics hub, OHSS monthly tables, and the eventual FY2025 ICE Annual Report for final official tallies [1] [2] [3].