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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
Current official figures and independent trackers show that the United States is holding historically high numbers of people in immigration detention — roughly 65,000–72,000 people in ICE custody in l...
Between January 20 and June 26, 2025, multiple contemporary reports agree that , with Texas leading at roughly , Florida about , and California about , together making up over in that window . Reporti...
US immigration detention and employer-run work camps are described in recent reporting and legal documents as expansive and often abusive: ICE operated in roughly 389 facilities as of February 2025 wh...
ICE detention levels fell sharply during the COVID-19 period and then climbed unevenly from 2019 through 2025: a 2019 peak near 50,500 was followed by pandemic-era reductions, a gradual rise through F...
Across 2025, public datasets and watchdog reporting converge on a middle range for the average length of stay in ICE custody — roughly between the mid‑40s and low‑50s of days — but that headline numbe...
Family separations remain a documented and ongoing consequence of U.S. immigration enforcement: advocacy groups counted roughly 2,654 children initially identified as possibly separated during the 201...
For annual ICE detention datasets, primary public sources include ICE’s own Enforcement & Removal Operations statistics and the OHSS (DHS) Key Homeland Security Measures detentions pages; independent ...
ICE detention levels rose sharply after 2024, moving from mid‑2024 averages around 37,000–41,500 toward substantially higher daily counts through 2025 as new administration priorities and funding resh...
The sources provided do not contain a clean, official year-by-year table of how many children were held in custody or in family detention for each year 2016–2025; ICE publishes bi‑monthly detention st...
A growing body of empirical research finds that sanctuary policies do not increase crime and in many analyses are associated with either null or modestly improved public-safety measures, while they me...
Portland’s adopted general fund budgets show the Public Safety service area — which includes the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) — receives the largest share of discretionary General Fund dollars; PPB al...
As of a TRAC analysis dated April 14, 2025, ICE had contractual bed capacity nationwide of 62,913 across 181 authorized detention facilities, while the agency held 48,056 people the prior night—an ave...
A clear, authoritative year‑over‑year series of ICE “attrition rates” from 2015 through the present is not published in a single official table; publicly available datasets and trackers provide the ra...