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Donald Trump campaigned connected a level of wide deportation. Since he took office, his management has reshaped migration enforcement crossed nan country. The Guardian, utilizing information published each 2 weeks by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is search nan number of group nan management has arrested, detained and deported.
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ICE usually publishes detention statistics for nan existent fiscal twelvemonth each 2 weeks (see footnote). The Guardian has been archiving each merchandise of detention guidance statistic since January 2025 and received older releases from nan Vera Institute for Justice. We calculated nan number of group arrested, detained and deported during each reporting play by scraping information from each merchandise and comparing nan totals pinch erstwhile releases.
The number of group arrested, successful detention, and deported do not person a direct, 1 to 1 connection. The migration ineligible strategy is analyzable and each fig has to beryllium considered connected its own. People tin beryllium arrested but not booked into detention, and deported without first being booked into detention.
The information for ICE arrests comes from nan ICE Initial Book-Ins by Arresting Agency and Month table. Arrest figures whitethorn beryllium an undercount because ICE reports only arrests that consequence successful personification entering ICE detention.
Detention totals travel from nan ICE Currently Detained by Criminality and Arresting Agency table. Deportations travel from nan ICE Removals table.
The Guardian US did not visualize nan first information merchandise of FY2025. The first merchandise of each twelvemonth includes carryover information from nan erstwhile fiscal twelvemonth and includes much than 2 weeks of arrests and deportations.
Update, 5 February 2026: Owing to a alteration successful nan wave that ICE reports nan data, mini errors were introduced into nan annotations of nan charts. Before nan authorities shutdown, information was visualized successful two-week increments, but aft nan authorities shutdown successful precocious 2025, ICE started releasing information inconsistently. The Guardian has now redesigned nan charts utilized to visualize ICE arrests, detentions and deportations to lucifer nan changing merchandise schedule.
