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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 ...
Publicly available and reporting cited in the provided materials confirm a of ICE’s workforce—more than doubling from roughly 10,000 to over 22,000 officers and agents in under a year—but do not, in t...
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 depending on the measure: "encounters" at the border number in the millions (for example, roughly from Feb. 2021–Sept. 2024) while government processing produced roughly 2.5 million rel...
Official tallies of U.S. deportations vary by administration and by how “deportation” is defined — removals (formal deportations), returns/administrative returns, and expulsions (Title 42-era expulsio...
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...
Yes — there are documented instances in which noncitizens (including unauthorized immigrants) have been found to have registered or cast ballots in U.S. elections, but independent audits and governmen...
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...
custody deaths rose sharply during the first year of second term: reporting and monitoring groups count between the mid‑20s and 32 deaths in 2025, making it the deadliest year for ICE detainees in rou...
Claims that in the each year are committed by undocumented (illegal) immigrants are not supported by available evidence: independent fact‑checking and peer analyses find no credible national count of ...
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...
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...
The short answer is no: the claim that President Biden "let 20 million illegal immigrants into the country" is not supported by available government data and independent analyses; official records sho...
ICE received large and growing resources during the Obama years, forming a substantial share of DHS immigration spending even as DHS as a whole also expanded; ICE’s funding and staffing increases supp...
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 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 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...
The most defensible, reported totals vary by source but converge around a figure in the low six‑hundreds of thousands for formal deportations since the start of Donald Trump’s second term: DHS and mul...
Available reporting does not document a clear, verified case of a protester being killed while participating in demonstrations specifically opposing ‑era immigration arrests; the record instead shows ...