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The claim that ICE is arresting a majority of criminal illegal immigrants in 2025-2026
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...
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...
No — independent datasets and multiple fact-checkers show that a large and growing share of people arrested and detained by in 2025–2026 did not have a U.S. criminal conviction, and several analyses p...
A set of high-profile enforcement actions in 2025 involved individuals who either already faced criminal indictments or were arrested on the basis of criminal allegations; federal and press materials ...
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 ...
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...
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...