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ICE detention data inconsistencies

The topic is about the inconsistencies in ICE detention data, including overlapping stays and zero-minute detentions, which make it difficult to track individual case trajectories.

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Jan 12, 2026
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How many ICE detainees are U.S. citizens, and how are they identified in ICE datasets?

Available federal and third‑party reviews show that at least some people whom ICE arrested or detained in recent years were U.S. citizens, but public ICE datasets do not publish a clean, authoritative...

Jan 28, 2026
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How many detainees have gone missing from ICE facilities

documented 698 cases it characterizes as "" from U.S. immigration detention between 2017 and 2021, but there is no single, authoritative public tally of "missing" detainees maintained by or that recon...

Jan 28, 2026

How does ICE define and categorize 'criminality' in its public detention and removal tables?

’s public detention and removal tables classify “” along a few discrete, administratively defined lines: persons with criminal convictions, those with pending criminal charges, and those with no convi...

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