Overview
- Internal records compiled by UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project show roughly 222,000 ICE arrests from Jan. 20 to Oct. 15, with nearly 75,000 involving people who had no criminal history.
- The dataset was obtained through litigation and does not distinguish between minor and serious past offenses for those with convictions, limiting assessments of enforcement priorities.
- ICE averaged about 824 arrests per day during the period, well below a reported internal goal of 3,000 per day, while DHS reports about 65,000 people currently in immigration detention.
- Local analyses highlight sharper impacts where police-ICE partnerships expanded, including Alabama’s 2025 surge and Monroe County, N.Y., where 46 people without criminal records were arrested.
- Border Patrol arrests are not included in the ICE figures, and demographics in the dataset show about 90% of arrestees were male, led by nationals of Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, with 22,959 recorded as voluntary departures.