Overview
- The New York Immigration Coalition and University of Colorado Boulder analyzed a UC Berkeley dataset covering Jan. 2024 through July 2025, and DHS and ICE did not immediately comment on the findings.
- Arrests of people without criminal records have grown three times faster than arrests of those with convictions, and roughly 70% of recent arrestees had no criminal convictions.
- Latino immigrants are heavily overrepresented in New York arrests, with Ecuadorians making up 24.9% of ICE arrests despite being about 4% of non-citizens, alongside elevated shares for Guatemalans, Mexicans and Hondurans.
- Men account for about 89% of ICE arrestees in New York even though they comprise roughly half of the state’s non-citizen population.
- Local court filings allege indiscriminate stops of Hispanic residents in Corona, Queens, including the detention and release of a blind Ecuadorian man, and the report warns arrests could intensify based on surges seen in Los Angeles.