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The expansion of detention capacity in the Upper Midwest and its impact on ICE arrests
There is no clear, verifiable evidence in the supplied reporting that ICE completed the deportation of a person proven to be a U.S. citizen in 2026; the record instead shows multiple high‑profile dete...
The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBBA) authorized roughly in additional funding for to be available through Sept. 30, 2029, but reporting shows that through fiscal years 2025–2026 most of that money remai...
Counts of deaths in custody spiked to the highest absolute level in more than two decades in — roughly 30–32 deaths reported by media trackers and advocates and acknowledged in ICE notices — coincidin...
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...
Project 2025 explicitly includes policy proposals that would enable and facilitate large-scale deportations — expanding expedited removal, increasing detention capacity, revoking immigration statuses,...
The ACLU plays a multi‑front legal and advocacy role defending undocumented immigrants in ICE detention and deportation proceedings: it files lawsuits and FOIA requests to challenge detention policies...
There is no publicly reported, authoritative count of how many U.S. citizens are "currently" in custody in the materials reviewed; ICE and mainstream reporting provide totals for the detained populati...
Congress authorized a roughly $75 billion multi‑year infusion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with reporting and legislative text consistently showing the bulk split between expanded de...
The most reliable reporting and compiled datasets indicate that the largest increases in arrests of non‑convicted migrants in clustered in a handful of cooperating jurisdictions—most notably , and —wi...
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...
FOIA-based analyses by immigrant-rights groups found that during roughly enforcement actions targeted individuals who did not meet the administration’s stated enforcement priorities, and that those ac...
Per-deportee cost calculations are built from a common set of operational line items — arrest, detention/monitoring, legal processing, transportation and removals — but the weight and accounting of th...
Yes—reporting shows a broad pattern in 2025–2026 of ICE detaining large numbers of people who have no criminal convictions and imposing policies that make release harder, producing outcomes critics ca...
ICE arrest and detention demographics have shifted since 2017: in the immediate aftermath of the 2017 executive orders a clear majority of arrests reported that year were of people with prior criminal...