By the numbers: the latest ICE and CBP data on arrests, detentions and deportations in the US

Donald Trump campaigned on a platform of mass deportation. Since he took office, his administration has reshaped immigration enforcement across the country. The Guardian, using data published every two weeks by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is tracking the number of people the administration has arrested, detained and deported.

Notes on the data

ICE usually publishes detention statistics for the current fiscal year every two weeks (see footnote). The Guardian has been archiving each release of detention management statistics since January 2025 and received older releases from the Vera Institute for Justice. We calculated the number of people arrested, detained and deported during each reporting period by scraping data from each release and comparing the totals with previous releases.

The number of people arrested, in detention, and deported do not have a direct, one to one connection. The immigration legal system is complicated and each figure has to be considered on its own. People can be arrested but not booked into detention, and deported without first being booked into detention.

The data for ICE arrests comes from the ICE Initial Book-Ins by Arresting Agency and Month table. Arrest figures may be an undercount because ICE reports only arrests that result in someone entering ICE detention.

Detention totals come from the ICE Currently Detained by Criminality and Arresting Agency table. Deportations come from the ICE Removals table.

The Guardian US did not visualize the first data release of FY2025. The first release of each year includes carryover data from the previous fiscal year and includes more than two weeks of arrests and deportations.

Update, 5 February 2026: Owing to a change in the frequency that ICE reports the data, small errors were introduced into the annotations of the charts. Before the government shutdown, data was visualized in two-week increments, but after the government shutdown in late 2025, ICE started releasing data inconsistently. The Guardian has now redesigned the charts used to visualize ICE arrests, detentions and deportations to match the changing release schedule.