Deportation Data Project

🚨 We just released new ICE data updated through August 6, 2026, adding almost five months of data to our previous release. The new dataset contains a field recording the city of each arrest. deportationdata.org/news/2026-08...

The White House has undertaken mass exclusion of international students. It has slashed new F-1 visas circa 32% in the latest available State Dept. data. That stunning, destructive act says a thousand times more than any empty words uttered at a press conference.

With a year of data in, the results are clear: the marginal ICE arrest is NOT a criminal. You can barely even tell on the right side of these charts of arrests of convicts when an ICE operation starts and ends. The spikes for noncriminals are massive.

EOIR updated its dataset of immigration court cases today through May 1, 2026, and we've posted our simplified removal case dataset. Explore the new data: eoir-removal-cases.apps.deportationdata.org The dataset comes a week after the data through Apr. 1 was posted.

ICE did not release updated detention data to the public today. By order of Congress, the agency is supposed to release new information on a semimonthly basis. It's been 30 days since the last update. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

The Trump administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 kids in seven months. We analyzed ICE records from January-August 2025 and found thousands of parents in the data. Families that have been broken up by the administration's mass deportation machine

Between 2025 and 2026, the number of people detained by ICE on any given day grew by nearly 60%. Thanks to Trump's deportation agenda, expanded immigration detention accounts for almost all of the growth in mass incarceration since last year.

For decades, the US federal government has been one of the foremost producers of information in the world. But over the past year, the Trump administration has been altering and removing decades’ worth of datasets, with enormous impact on all aspects of life. 🧵

"ICE carried out more than 167,000 arrests in and around the 11 U.S. host cities between Jan. 20, 2025, and March 10, 2026"

We got our hands on internal ICE records that show how widespread use of force, like punches, kicks, takedown maneuvers, restraint holds, and less-lethal weapons such as Tasers and pepper spray in detention centers has grown wapo.st/4tdgBRA (1/)

Congress mandates that ICE must regularly publish summary statistics that inform the public as to how many people the agency is detaining and where. The last release was April 9. 21 days ago. It is now past 6pm ET on May 1 and ICE has not updated this webpage. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

EOIR, the agency that runs US immigration courts, posted its April 2026 immigration case dataset update earlier today. It runs through April 1. We've now updated our simplified, processed version of the data, which you can download and explore here: eoir-removal-cases.apps.deportationdata.org

EOIR, the agency that runs US immigration courts, posted its April 2026 immigration case dataset update earlier today. It runs through April 1. We've now updated our simplified, processed version of the data, which you can download and explore here: eoir-removal-cases.apps.deportationdata.org

"A quarter of immigration arrests since August were labeled by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as 'collateral,' a type of arrest and detention that’s been challenged in court as an end run around civil rights." https://bit.ly/4tDE5jP

The Illinois Accountability Commission, formed by Gov. JB Pritzker, has released its report on Operation Midway Blitz. Led by a former chief federal judge, the commission found that federal agents "regularly used force against Illinoisans without justification": ilac.illinois.gov/content/dam/...

800+ immigrants arrested. 17 (2%) charged with a violent crime. That's the Memphis Safe Task Force's first 4 months. Source: www.propublica.org/article/memp...

According to a group of ICE watchers and residents of the Southwood Apartments, federal agents have become daily visitors at the complex, which is home to a significant chunk of Richmond's Latino population. Residents at Southwood said they are witnessing the increase firsthand.

ICE says 81% arrested in Operation Midway Blitz had no convictions, falsely asserts no citizens arrested NEW from @tinasfon.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

NEW: More people have pending/unopened cases at USCIS than ever. The sharp jumps surpass increases during Trump's first term. Lawyers say it makes clients vulnerable to deportation. The admin says its their attempt to "not take shortcuts" www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

NEW from me for @immcouncil.org's blog. I dig into the Deportation Data Project's information and shed some light on Trump's mass deportation project, more than one year into his latest term in office. You'll want to check this one out! www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-arr...

(1/3) @humanrightsfirst.org's ICE Flight Monitor March 2026 report reveals continued escalation of Trump's cruel and lawless deportation campaign.

New data from @deportationdata.org was released, giving us more insight on what Minneapolis surge numbers really looked like and who was targeted. minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/31/3...

It doesn't matter what category of legal immigration. Trump has cut it all, even banning half of all legal immigrant spouses and minor children of US citizens. Follow our research. Even the president of the United States does! www.cato.org/blog/trump-h...