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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 ...
President Obama’s administrations relied heavily on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to carry out removals, producing more than over eight years with a fiscal-year peak in 2012 of roughl...
Available government and research sources show that removals (often reported as "deportations") under the Biden administration reached roughly 271,000–272,000 in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, and cumulative ...
Counting how many people were deported under any given U.S. president is fraught: official statistics use different categories (removals, returns, expulsions, repatriations), data are reported by fisc...
Across multiple government and think‑tank counts, the number depends on what is being counted: strict “removals” (formal deportation orders) totaled roughly the mid‑hundreds of thousands in Biden’s la...
Recent reporting shows two sharply divergent narratives about who ICE is arresting: federal officials and DHS communications assert that a large majority of arrests target people with criminal convict...
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...
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 ...
Available sources show multiple ways of counting “deportations” under President Joe Biden: DHS/ICE dashboards and reporting cite annual removals like about 271,000–272,000 in FY2024 while analyses tha...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under the Trump administration has publicly claimed that roughly 1.6 million people "self‑deported" (part of a broader figure of 2 million people who have lef...
ICE booking and detention data show a large majority of people in ICE custody during late 2025 had no prior criminal conviction—multiple analyses put the share without convictions at roughly 70–74% (f...
DHS and ICE statistics show large, but differently counted, numbers for people removed from the United States: ICE and DHS dashboards report roughly 330,000 “removals” (often called deportations) in f...
Available reporting shows multiple, documented incidents in 2025 where federal immigration agents detained people later identified as U.S. citizens — including high-profile cases in Minneapolis and Ch...
Reports and government data show large increases in removals and enforcement in 2025, including DHS claims of more than 527,000 formal deportations and 2 million people removed or self‑deported as of ...
Available reporting and government reviews show that ICE has in multiple past instances detained and—according to a 2021 Government Accountability Office (GAO) finding—deported U.S. citizens (GAO coun...
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...
ICE arrests from Jan. 20 to mid-October 2025 show a large and growing share of people taken into custody who had no prior criminal convictions — studies and media analyses put that share anywhere from...
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...
Available sources do not provide a single, definitive tally of how many people "were allowed in" during Donald Trump’s first term; reporting and government releases instead focus on enforcement action...
Available, verifiable government-watchdog reporting establishes a demonstrable floor: people identified as U.S. citizens were detained by in the period analyzed by the — a conservative minimum — but o...