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The enforcement of immigration laws in 2025, including detentions and arrests.
ICE and Florida state releases for 2025–early 2026 present two overlapping but not identical pictures: large, publicized sweeps that ICE and the Florida governor characterize as focused on "criminal i...
Yes — multiple government statements and reporting indicate that ICE officers and their families have been the targets of threats, doxxing and harassment, and DHS says those incidents have surged sinc...
The “One Big Beautiful Bill” (often shortened to the Big Beautiful Bill or OBBBBA) is a broad, 2025 federal statute that bundles hundreds of tax, spending and policy changes across areas from individu...
Government tallies and independent reporting give very different answers to what share of people deported under President Trump’s mass-enforcement campaign were “criminals”: DHS and ICE public stateme...
Official and independent tallies diverge, but the best reading of public reporting is that deportations (formal removals) in the Trump administration’s second term and calendar/fiscal year 2025 number...
Official DHS and ICE publications and prominent secondary trackers provide headline totals for removals in 2025 and the early part of FY2026, but none of the provided DHS/ICE documents or public data ...
Yes — multiple reputable reports and agency data show ICE has arrested people who held lawful or pending immigration statuses, as well as many detainees without criminal convictions, even while the De...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has publicly claimed that between roughly 1.6 million and 1.9 million people “self‑deported” from the United States during 2025 as part of the administration’...
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...
A definitive count of how many ICE raids occurred in U.S. schools since 2020 by year is not available in the sources provided: ICE’s public statistics do not break out enforcement actions by precise l...
Available reporting does not provide a single authoritative, published tally of how many noncitizens with criminal convictions ICE deported during the full calendar year 2025; however, public analyses...
Multiple independent analyses of 2025 ICE data show that roughly seven out of ten people held in ICE custody had no criminal conviction; Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) reports 73.6%...
U.S. labor markets in 2025–2026 have shown a clear response to stepped-up immigration enforcement and tighter legal flows: labor-force growth slowed or turned negative as net migration fell, producing...
ICE is not literally unregulated—the agency operates under federal law, internal oversight offices, detention standards, and Congressional authority—but multiple recent reports and watchdog analyses s...
There is no reliable, official count of how many American citizens were deported in 2025; U.S. authorities did not track detained or missing citizens as a separate, reportable category, and public dat...
The Trump administration sharply escalated interior and border enforcement, driving ICE and CBP arrests, detention populations and deportations far above 2021–24 levels while changing how removals wer...
Federal datasets released and analyzed by journalists and researchers show a dramatic shift in the criminal-record composition of people held by ICE in 2025: detention totals surged to record highs wh...
Texas, Florida and California together accounted for the lion’s share of ICE arrests in the first half of 2025, with Texas alone shouldering an outsized portion (roughly one in four arrests) as enforc...
Across multiple independent analyses of ’s 2025 detention and arrest records, roughly 29–35 percent of people detained had a recorded U.S. criminal conviction, while about 65–72 percent had no crimina...
Federal courts across multiple states imposed meaningful limits on ’s surge of at‑large community and in 2025, issuing injunctions, class findings, and extensions of existing consent decrees that curt...