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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 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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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that at least some people whom ICE arrested or detained in recent years were U.S. citizens, but public ICE datasets do not publish a clean, authoritative...
Available reporting shows ICE detention counts rose sharply from the Biden years into 2024–2025: TRAC and Vera data put the end‑of‑FY numbers at roughly 25,134 (FY2022), 32,743 (FY2023), ~37,000 (end ...
There is no authoritative count of “ICE detainees who have gone missing” in the public record; available federal datasets and investigative reporting track deaths, transfers, releases and escapes in d...
Barack Obama’s administration recorded large numbers of removals—over 2.7 million removals across his two terms according to some analyses—and Migration Policy Institute says his record featured highe...
Available reporting shows a wide range of ways to count “ICE arrests.” Multiple data analyses find that a majority of people booked into ICE custody in 2025 had no violent convictions — one analysis s...
ICE and related trackers show a large uptick in enforcement activity in 2025 compared with 2024, reflected in record detention counts (e.g., 61,226 detained on Aug. 23, 2025) and high deportation esti...
There is no single, authoritative percentage of “false arrests” by ICE in the available reporting; independent trackers show large shares of people arrested or detained have no criminal conviction (fo...
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 ...
Independent researchers who analyzed FOIA-obtained ICE records — principally the Deportation Data Project and affiliated analyses — conclude that roughly two-thirds of ICE arrests in the 2025–2026 rep...