Overview
- An analysis released Jan. 27 by UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project finds deportations tied to ICE arrests inside the U.S. rose more than fourfold in the first nine months of Trump’s second term.
- ICE street arrests increased about 11-fold and transfers from criminal custody roughly doubled, marking a shift toward broader interior enforcement rather than conviction-based targeting.
- Arrests of people without criminal convictions rose about sevenfold as detention capacity expanded with new congressional funding and releases within roughly 60 days fell from about 16% to 3%.
- The report links faster case resolution to a 21-fold jump in voluntary departures, with regional snapshots such as New England showing higher shares removed within 60 days.
- While DHS says it targets the “worst of the worst,” its Minneapolis Metro Surge has topped 3,500 arrests since Dec. 1, and lawyers cite many arrestees with no criminal history as DHS notes 57% of recent national bookings involved convictions or pending charges.