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The proportion of ICE arrests involving people with criminal convictions declined across 2025, with a substantial minority or plurality of ICE arrestees lacking criminal convictions by late 2025 into early 2026.
Recent reporting shows two sharply divergent narratives about who ICE is arresting: federal officials and DHS communications assert that a large majority of arrests target people with criminal convict...
A clear pattern emerges in 2025 reporting: the largest year‑over‑year surges in at‑large “community” arrests clustered in states and regions served by ICE field offices covering New Mexico, Oregon (in...
The leading reported offenses cited as the basis for arrests in 2025 clustered into two broad categories: immigration-related violations (including illegal reentry and administrative removability) and...
Three official government products carry the weight of "official" ICE/DHS arrest counts: ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) statistics and broader ICE statistics pages, DHS’s Office of Hom...
enforcement in 2025 produced the largest percentage increases in arrest rates in , , , and — while states with the biggest absolute counts of arrests were , and — changes driven by pressure to scale u...
About half of nationwide over the period analyzed were of people handed over by federal, state or local custody, according to . the share is markedly lower: roughly 30 percent of people detained by IC...
ICE’s pivot in 2025 from jail-based pickups to at‑large community arrests dramatically broadened the citizenship and criminal‑record profile of those detained: multiple independent analyses show a sha...
A review of reporting and datasets compiled in 2025 shows the largest localized surges in ICE arrests occurred in specific counties and metropolitan areas rather than uniformly across the country: Den...
Texas, Florida and California together accounted for the lion’s share of ICE arrests in the first half of 2025, with Texas alone shouldering an outsized portion (roughly one in four arrests) as enforc...
Analysis of multiple datasets and reporting shows that during 2025 the share of people arrested by who had prior U.S. fell sharply while the share arrested solely for civil rose — by mid-to-late 2025 ...
The headline numbers — , 34,000 in , 30,000 in , 13,000 in and 12,000 in — cannot be fully corroborated from the documents provided, though they are within the realm of plausibility given reported sur...
arrests since January 2025 have been heavily concentrated in a handful of large states, with , and reported as the three states with the highest documented arrest counts in the first half of 2025 (Jan...
ICE arrests in 2025 were driven by a mix of traditional criminal-history enforcement and a dramatic expansion of so‑called administrative arrests targeting people without criminal convictions, with en...
ICE arrests surged nationally in 2025, with advocacy analyses showing averages exceeding 1,000 arrests per day during peak periods and a marked shift toward community “at-large” arrests outside jails ...
A precise year‑by‑year table of ICE’s total apprehensions and referrals for 2017–2025 is not reproducible from the provided reporting alone; the authoritative monthly and annual operational datasets e...
Multiple independent news analyses of ICE’s own releases show that arrests in calendar year 2025 numbered in the low hundreds of thousands: The Guardian’s compilation of ICE data reports “more than 32...