Overview
- Deportations tied to ICE arrests rose about fourfold in the first nine months of the current administration as street arrests surged roughly 11 times, the Deportation Data Project reports.
- The share of detainees released within about 60 days fell from roughly 16% in late 2024 to about 3% in 2025, a shift researchers say accelerated removals and drove a 21-fold jump in voluntary departures.
- Only about 30% of those detained had criminal convictions, with arrests of people without convictions rising sevenfold even as arrests of people with convictions also increased.
- Detention capacity used for domestic arrests roughly tripled with new congressional funding, while transfers from prisons and jails to ICE custody about doubled.
- In New England, deportations outpaced arrests, with about 56% of mid-2025 arrestees deported within 60 days compared with roughly 37% during the final months of the Biden administration.