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Since January 2025 detention has grown rapidly and shifted geographically: , , , and have been the primary anchors of the expanded system, with Texas—particularly facilities—housing the largest daily ...
Federal dashboards and independent trackers show that the largest absolute volumes of ICE interior arrests in recent months have clustered in the nation’s biggest population and immigration hubs — not...
Publicly available reporting and leaked datasets point to a clear conclusion: only a small share of people deported under ’s second-term enforcement surge had violent criminal convictions, and indepen...
across 2025 into early 2026, with agency tallies showing roughly mid- to high‑60,000s in custody by late 2025 and early January 2026, but publicly available data do not provide a complete, up‑to‑date ...
Since 2024 the largest enforcement deployments reported in U.S. cities have centered on the Twin Cities (–) and , with major activity also documented in and wide state-level surges in , and ; reportin...
There is no authoritative, publicly published tally in the supplied records that enumerates how many U.S. citizens have been detained or deported by ICE since 2020; the federal datasets that do exist ...
Publicly available reporting and government releases provide only fragmentary, indirect evidence about how the racial and gender makeup of ICE enforcement officers changed between 2010 and 2024: a mid...
Publicly available DHS and ICE statistical products and the reporting provided do not identify any confirmed cases of U.S. citizens being deported in 2025; the removals and “deportation” totals cited ...
Available reporting shows that a large and growing share of people arrested by ICE in 2025 had no criminal convictions — national analyses find roughly one-third to three-quarters of arrests involved ...
ICE reported 277,686 arrests for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, an average of about 310 arrests per day according to ICE-published figures cited by Newsweek . Independent trackers and news analyses show a mar...
ICE’s official historical enforcement numbers are available but dispersed across ICE releases, DHS datasets and third‑party projects: DHS’s OHSS Persist tables and ICE statistics provide removals and ...
The best-documented, government-backed estimate is that up to 70 U.S. citizens were mistakenly deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the five-year period 2015–2020, according to...
ICE and DHS reporting and multiple news analyses show hundreds of thousands of removals in 2025, with a large share of those detained or deported lacking criminal convictions. For example, a Marshall ...
’s footprint is large but fragmented in public data: the agency carries a point-in-time measured in the tens of thousands and conducts roughly six-figured annual , but available datasets do not supply...
ICE arrest totals for calendar 2025 vary by dataset and definition, but major compilations assembled from ICE releases and FOIA disclosures place the agency’s arrests in the low hundreds of thousands ...
State-by-state ICE arrest rates in 2025 varied sharply: Texas emerges as the epicenter with the highest per‑capita arrest rates in multiple analyses, while some West Coast areas—most notably Northern ...
’s custody population rose sharply in 2025, hitting record point-in-time levels in December: publicly archived counts show more than 68,400 people detained as of December 14, 2025, and contemporaneous...
Across multiple analyses and DHS data cited in reporting, Joe Biden’s administration oversaw substantially higher removals and returns in its later years than Donald Trump’s early months in his second...
ICE has dramatically expanded interior arrests under the current administration, pursuing people without criminal convictions as well as those with records and setting ambitious daily targets (about 1...
Available federal and third‑party reviews show that at least some people whom ICE arrested or detained in recent years were U.S. citizens, but public ICE datasets do not publish a clean, authoritative...