How many ICE agents are from racial or ethnic minority groups as of 2025?
Executive summary
There is no single, authoritative breakdown in the supplied reporting that states exactly how many ICE agents were racial or ethnic minorities in 2025; government pages that publish ICE statistics exist but the provided extracts do not include a 2025 demographic table [1] [2]. Existing studies and media reporting give partial snapshots—for example, older public reporting has put Latino representation in ICE in the high-teens to near‑30 percent range depending on the year and source [3] [4]—but those figures cannot be used to state a definitive 2025 total without further, up‑to‑date disclosure from ICE or DHS [1].
1. What the official sources in the packet actually show and what they do not show
The ICE statistics landing page and DHS monthly enforcement tables are cited in the material, but the supplied snippets do not contain a published 2025 demographic breakdown of ICE staff by race or ethnicity, meaning an exact 2025 headcount of agents from racial or ethnic minority groups cannot be produced from these documents alone [1] [2]. The DHS Equal Employment Opportunity office exists and would be the locus for such demographic reporting, but the extract only describes its mission and does not include component-level demographic totals for 2025 [5].
2. Partial estimates and older snapshots in the reporting — conflicting pictures
Public and academic reporting in the packet points to divergent historical snapshots: a Univision-derived figure published in commentary and picked up by outlets suggested Latino representation among ICE agents was nearly 30 percent around 2017, while an academic/legal compilation snippet cites “13 percent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents” in a context that the extract does not timestamp clearly, leaving the two figures in tension [3] [4]. A Notre Dame study of Latinx ICE officers described a notable Latinx presence in certain ICE components and used interviews to show complex identity dynamics, but it was qualitative and limited in scope and timeframe [6]. None of these sources provide a contemporaneous, comprehensive 2025 demographic count.
3. Why a definitive 2025 number is elusive in these sources
ICE’s public statistics pages and DHS operational datasets publish many operational metrics (book-ins, removals, monthly tables) but do not necessarily publish a clear, current demographic headcount in the extracts provided here; the absence of that table in the supplied snippets means the requested exact 2025 minority-count cannot be confirmed from these materials alone [1] [2]. Moreover, reporting about a massive workforce surge in 2025—ICE growing to more than 22,000 officers and agents after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—changes the denominator dramatically and would materially affect any percentage-to-count conversion if demographic proportions from earlier years were applied to the new workforce size [7].
4. Conservative reading: how to translate available figures into an estimate — and its limits
If one were to use past published percentages as proxies, the estimates diverge: applying the near‑30 percent Latino figure earlier reported would have implied a substantial minority cohort, and applying a 13 percent minority share from another snippet would yield far smaller numbers, but both are anchored to different years and methods and therefore unreliable for 2025 without confirmation [3] [4]. Complicating matters, independent analyses and the Congressional Budget Office discussed aggressive hiring funded in 2025 that increased ICE staffing; such rapid expansion can shift demographic mixes quickly depending on recruiting priorities and targeted outreach, which the agency reportedly pursued [7] [8].
5. Conclusion: what can be stated with confidence
From the supplied reporting, it is not possible to produce a definitive count of how many ICE agents were from racial or ethnic minority groups as of 2025 because the packet does not include a current DHS/ICE demographic table for that year; available sources instead provide earlier or partial snapshots and contextual reporting about hiring surges that change the workforce base [1] [2] [7]. Reasonable next steps for a precise answer would be to request ICE’s 2025 workforce demographic table or the DHS EEO component’s demographic report for 2025, neither of which appear in the supplied excerpts [5].