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ICE Arrests 2025-2026

ICE arrests in 2025 and early 2026 were overwhelmingly composed of people without violent criminal convictions

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Jan 15, 2026

How many ICE arrests in 2025–2026 involved individuals without criminal convictions, according to FOIA data analyzed by independent researchers?

Independent researchers who analyzed FOIA-obtained ICE records — principally the Deportation Data Project and affiliated analyses — conclude that roughly two-thirds of ICE arrests in the 2025–2026 rep...

Jan 13, 2026

How many people have ICE abducted?

The sources do not use the word "abducted" and provide no official tally of unlawful abductions by ICE; instead, publicly released ICE and independent datasets record arrests, book‑ins, detentions and...

Jan 19, 2026

What share of ICE arrests are for immigration reentry versus violent crimes?

Interior ICE arrests in 2025 and early 2026 were overwhelmingly composed of people without violent criminal convictions — multiple independent analyses put the share of those with violent convictions ...

Jan 16, 2026

How many ICE street-side arrests were recorded in major U.S. cities in 2025–2026, by conviction status?

Public reporting and newly released ICE/deportation datasets show a sharp rise in street-level interior arrests in 2025–early 2026, but the sources do not provide a complete, harmonized city-by-city t...

Jan 8, 2026

ICE arrests

ICE arrests have surged in 2025–2026 amid a major agency expansion and a shift in tactics, producing competing narratives: the Department of Homeland Security portrays most arrests as targeting “the w...