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As of late 2025 and early 2026 independent analyses of point-in-time detention counts show that a substantial majority of people in ICE custody had no criminal conviction on record—most sources put th...
Public data from the sources provided show in reported deportation counts since President Trump took office in 2025: independent trackers report tens of thousands of formal removals while policy model...
There is no authoritative, publicly released count of citizens detained or wrongly deported by specifically ""; reporting and watchdog analyses document individual cases and produce multi‑year estimat...
As of early January 2026, ’s detained population was reported at roughly 69,000 people — a record high for the agency — with multiple watchdog and news outlets citing agency data that put the number b...
Public sources consulted do not provide a clear, authoritative percentage of detainees who are U.S. citizens; reporting documents dozens of high-profile and individual cases but no comprehensive citiz...
Public datasets and independent trackers show presided over substantially more removals than ’s first term: ’s TRAC counts roughly 3.1 million ICE removals across Obama’s eight years , while Trump’s f...
removals under ’s second term total roughly 290,603 individuals when combining ICE’s FY2025 post-inauguration removals with early FY2026 figures compiled by — a figure that is consistent with, but nar...
Public data and reporting differ on terminology and counting methods, but available sources show that -era “removals” and arrests under were measured in the hundreds of thousands per year and totaled ...
did not conduct a single, sudden "" sweep of millions under , but the administration did oversee historically high numbers of removals and used broad enforcement programs and priorities that critics c...
’s documented removals have become a contested ledger: federal agencies and the Trump administration publish large headline totals, independent analysts and watchdogs parse ICE’s semi‑monthly tables t...
The available, vetted audits and advocacy reports do not produce a clean tally that links “accidental deportations” of U.S. citizens to ’s time in office; independent analyses show systematic misident...
There is no authoritative, public tally of citizens wrongly deported during ’s second administration; available reporting documents multiple individual cases but stops short of a single, confirmed tot...
The available reporting does not provide a direct answer to how many agents have prior criminal convictions; the documents supplied focus overwhelmingly on the criminal histories of people detained by...
Yes — by most commonly used counts of “removals” during ’s two terms, roughly , though that figure depends on what the tally counts and how agencies label “removals” versus “returns” or “repatriations...
The sources provided do not contain any data on the criminal background of employees or agents, so the direct question——cannot be answered from this reporting; there is no empirical claim in these doc...
Government audits and multiple news analyses document instances where U.S. citizens were wrongly identified, arrested, detained or even removed in immigration enforcement actions; a 2025 GAO-based cou...
presided over some of the highest formal removals (“deportations”) in recent history — including a peak of roughly 438,421 removals in FY2013 and more than 2 million removals in his first terms by som...
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) review found that , while other analyses indicate the true figure could be higher because of poor record-keeping and identification errors. Broader datasets an...
Interior (non‑border) removals fell sharply under Biden compared with earlier years, even as total deportations and returns rose due to border processing and expulsions; shifts in prosecutorial priori...
has detained and even processed U.S. citizens in its records across multiple administrations, including during presidencies, but the formal deportation (removal) of a U.S. citizen is illegal under U.S...