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The increase in ICE detentions and the proportion of non-criminal detainees between early 2025 and early 2026.
’s footprint is large but fragmented in public data: the agency carries a point-in-time measured in the tens of thousands and conducts roughly six-figured annual , but available datasets do not supply...
’s custody population rose sharply in 2025, hitting record point-in-time levels in December: publicly archived counts show more than 68,400 people detained as of December 14, 2025, and contemporaneous...
There is no single, authoritative “” number for all time; recent reporting and government releases show a dramatic spike in interior ICE arrests and detention through 2025–early 2026, with monthly and...
As of late 2025 and early January 2026, ICE was holding roughly 69,000–70,000 people in custody, a historic high driven largely by the agency’s expanded interior arrests and detention expansion . Avai...
Independent news investigations published between January and March 2026 documented at least two U.S. citizens detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a case reported by The Guardi...
The best publicly available federal audit found that, from fiscal year 2015 through March 2020, arrested 674 people, detained 121, and removed 70 "," and those figures are the closest thing in the rec...
published original reporting in January 2026 that described enforcement targets and incentive structures, asserting that agents faced pressure to meet daily arrest targets and that those arrests count...
No single authoritative total of " since 2025" is published in the provided reporting; public sources document sharply increased arrests and historically high detention populations in 2025 but do not ...