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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
’s custody population rose sharply in 2025, hitting record point-in-time levels in December: publicly archived counts show more than 68,400 people detained as of December 14, 2025, and contemporaneous...
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...
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...
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...
's public footprint is shaped not simply by where immigrants live but by a mix of agency priorities, state and local cooperation, detention capacity, targeted deployments and data limits—so the visibl...
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...
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 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...
The public record does not provide a month-by-month tally of facility inspection reports for 2025 that can be verified from the available sources; independent analysis shows a sharp overall drop in po...
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...
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...
ICE-held populations hit unprecedented levels in 2025–early 2026, surpassing prior peaks such as August 2019 and reaching daily and snapshot counts that approached the system’s expanded capacity—recor...
’s public detention dashboard publishes agency-curated, quarterly snapshots of arrests, detentions, removals and alternatives to detention and frames those numbers in operational language and caveats ...