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The answer depends on which number is used: the publicly claimed between roughly 605,000 and 622,000 “” or removals since January 20, 2025 (DHS press releases), but independent analysts and data produ...
Independent researchers, advocacy groups and data projects have repeatedly reanalyzed ICE’s published and found that ICE’s internal coding and public framing — especially counting people with pending ...
As of late January 2026, independent trackers and ’s published rolls show roughly people in ICE custody on any given day, with the widely cited single-day count of 70,766 reported by on January 25, 20...
published original reporting in January 2026 that described enforcement targets and incentive structures, asserting that agents faced pressure to meet daily arrest targets and that those arrests count...
detention of people without criminal convictions rose sharply from late 2024 into 2026, driving most of the agency’s net increase in detained populations, and multiple independent and official dataset...
The and statements during 2024–2025 repeatedly touted massive deportation figures— and millions “”—claims that independent tallies and data watchdogs say are inflated or not comparable to historical r...
Short answer: it depends on which number is counted—by several mainstream analysts and government tables, the recorded higher total in its last full year and across some multi‑year spans, but the ’s f...