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Available reporting shows no single, definitive tally of how many U.S. citizens have been “detained or picked up by ICE” during the 2025 enforcement surge; different outlets and organizations track re...
Estimates vary because officials, analysts and media use different measures: Border Patrol “encounters” since January 2021 exceed 10 million, about 8 million at the southwest land border, but that raw...
Deaths in ICE custody have risen sharply in fiscal year (FY) 2025: reporting outlets and advocacy tallies put the count at roughly 20–23 deaths through late 2025, the highest annual total since the ea...
The available reporting shows wide disagreement about how many people have been deported since President Trump returned to office: official Trump administration figures released by DHS/White House aff...
As of mid- to late‑2025, multiple independent trackers and news analyses find roughly 70–73% of people in ICE custody have no criminal convictions; TRAC reports 73.6% of 65,135 detainees had no convic...
Available reporting measures “deportations” in multiple ways—ICE “removals,” CBP expulsions/returns, and voluntary self-deports—so a single presidential total is not straightforward. Migration Policy ...
The clearest hard number in the provided reporting is that ICE recorded roughly 271,000–272,000 removals (deportations) in fiscal year (FY) 2024 (ICE/agency reporting summarized by TRAC and BBC) . Bro...
Data and peer-reviewed research consistently show that immigrants — including those without authorization — are not more likely to commit serious crimes than U.S.-born residents; multiple national and...
Available federal and independent reporting shows that only a minority of undocumented (commonly termed “illegal”) immigrants have criminal convictions: counts of people in ICE detention indicate roug...
Available reporting shows the Biden administration’s enforcement produced millions of repatriations (returns, expulsions and removals) — roughly 4.4–4.7 million by late 2024/early 2025 — while ICE rem...
The balance of rigorous, peer‑reviewed research shows that undocumented immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S.-born citizens: multiple studies using arrest and incarceration records—most no...
The most consequential differences between ICE removals under Barack Obama and Donald Trump were not only raw counts but priorities, prosecutorial discretion, and tactics: Obama tightened priorities a...
The short answer: formal removals (what DHS labels “deportations”) during President Biden’s last full fiscal year are reported at roughly 271,000–272,000; when broader categories — expulsions, volunta...
Reports and watchdog counts indicate U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has detained at least “more than 170” U.S. citizens in 2025 and that overall detention levels have surged to record ...
Across the Biden presidency, U.S. government sources and analysts consistently report millions of “encounters” at the border — not unique people — with totals ranging from roughly 9 million to more th...
Available sources show sizable variation in estimates of the US unauthorized/undocumented population and emphasize changing origins and diversity rather than a single “racial breakdown.” Pew, MPI, Mig...
Available reporting and government releases document ICE arrest and detention totals but provide only limited direct breakdowns by sex; the official ICE statistics pages and recent reporting focus on ...
Available government and analytical reporting shows far more recorded “encounters” at the southern border during the Biden years than during Trump’s first term: about 9.4 million encounters from FY202...
Under President Obama, removals (formal deportations) were high relative to prior administrations and focused increasingly on two groups: noncitizens with criminal convictions and recent unauthorized ...
Available reporting gives two common figures for 2024 removals: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reports 271,484 deportations in fiscal year (FY) 2024 (Oct. 1, 2023–Sept. 30, 2024) . Dep...