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ICE Data Discrepancies 2025

Discrepancies in ICE's publicly visible statistics and FOIA-produced datasets, including missing or differently coded fields, large gaps in location data, and explicit shifts in how ICE categorized arrests.

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Jan 15, 2026
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How has ICE’s public dashboard reporting differed from FOIA releases, and what corrections or coding changes has ICE acknowledged for 2025 data?

ICE’s publicly visible statistics and its FOIA-produced datasets have diverged in important ways: independent researchers obtained detailed, individual-level ICE records via FOIA that reveal missing o...