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ICE Removals and Arrests Verification

Verification of ICE removals and arrests through FOIA requests and public releases

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Jan 28, 2026
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How does ICE classify detained individuals by citizenship status in its raw dashboards, and how can researchers compute 'undocumented' from that data?

’s public dashboards and data releases categorize people it encounters and detains chiefly by country of citizenship and by criminality, not by a neat binary “documented/” flag, so researchers must in...

Jan 26, 2026

How do FOIA-based NGO counts of detention deaths compare with ICE’s official lists for each presidential administration since 2003?

Freedom of Information Act ()–based tallies compiled by NGOs and researchers repeatedly reveal counts and case details that differ from or precede ’s own public lists, especially when broken down by a...

Jan 16, 2026

What independent FOIA-based resources can journalists use to verify ICE removal and arrest counts beyond DHS press releases?

Independent, FOIA-based verification of ICE removals and arrests is possible using agency FOIA portals and public releases, intermediary project datasets that post original individual-level records ob...