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ICE's pivot from jail-based pickups to at-large community arrests in 2025, resulting in a sharp rise in people with no criminal convictions and a surge in community-based apprehensions concentrated among Latino populations.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...