How many cities has ice gone to since Jan 2025
Executive summary
Based on the supplied reporting, at least 18 distinct cities have documented ICE enforcement actions since January 2025, as described in the sources reviewed; that figure is a conservative count drawn from named incidents in news and advocacy reporting [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] Camarillo,CaliforniaICE_raid" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">[8]. The available material does not provide a single, authoritative nationwide tally, so the number below reflects only the cities explicitly named in the provided sources, not the full universe of ICE activity since January 2025 [9] [10].
1. What the sources explicitly name — the documented cities
Reporting used here names Minneapolis and Saint Paul (the Twin Cities) as the focus of Operation Metro Surge and related deployments [2] [11], New Orleans as the site of a “Swamp Sweep” Border Patrol deployment [1], Los Angeles as an early and sustained site of large-scale operations [6], New York City and Newark among places with raids on January 23, 2025 [1] [5], Chicago referenced in images and reporting of December raids [7], Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Miami, Philadelphia, Seattle and Washington, D.C. named in media lists of January 23 enforcement actions [1], Austin confirmed by local reporting as hosting raids [5], and a cluster of Southern California farm‑raid locations including Camarillo, Carpinteria and Oxnard tied to the 2025 Camarillo raid [8] — these explicitly named localities total 18 distinct cities in the supplied sources [1] [2] [5] [6] [7] [8].
2. Why this is a conservative, non‑exhaustive count
None of the supplied materials present an official comprehensive list or centralized tally of every city ICE visited after January 2025; several sources are snapshots (news articles, advocacy reports, localized trackers) that document high‑profile raids or concentrated operations but acknowledge ongoing, expanding activity nationwide [3] [9] [10]. Independent trackers and civil‑society groups document many more neighborhood‑level incidents than national press summaries, and ICE/DHS public statements emphasize numbers of arrests and deployments rather than enumerating every city visited, so the 18‑city figure above should be read as the number of distinct municipal names explicitly cited in these specific sources, not a complete accounting [9] [12] [10].
3. Conflicting narratives and implicit agendas in the coverage
Different sources frame the same movements very differently: federal and DHS statements stress targeting of criminal offenders and surge capacity (cited arrests and agent deployments) while advocacy groups and local governments allege militarized, racially targeted campaigns and civil‑rights abuses — for example DHS framed large operations as lawful enforcement even as city and state officials (and the ACLU) sued and criticized the actions in Minnesota and elsewhere [2] [11] [13]. Media outlets also select which cities to name and which incidents to foreground — national outlets list multi‑city raids on single dates, human‑rights and local reporting dwell on neighborhoods and individual harms, and watchdog trackers log many smaller incidents that national summaries can miss, creating divergent impressions of geographic scale [1] [6] [9].
4. Bottom line and limitations of this count
The reporting provided documents ICE enforcement in at least 18 named cities since January 2025 — Minneapolis, Saint Paul, New Orleans, Los Angeles, New York City, Newark, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Miami, Philadelphia, Seattle, Washington D.C., Austin, Camarillo, Carpinteria, and Oxnard — but this is a conservative floor based only on explicit place‑names in these sources and not a definitive national total, because the sources do not supply a complete nationwide list or unified dataset [1] [2] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]. If an exact, exhaustive count is required, a comprehensive crosswalk of ICE/DHS operational logs, local reporting, and live‑tracking datasets would be necessary — materials not included in the set provided for this analysis [9] [12].