Overview

• ICE interior arrests have doubled since January, driving up the average ICE detention population by 25 percent.
• Deportations have surpassed 207,000 as of April, marking a recent surge in removal operations.
• ICE recorded 26,606 arrests between October and December 2024, with migrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador comprising the majority.
• The administration is in talks with additional countries to accept deportees and has repurposed facilities in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay to house detainees.
• Fifty-four percent of Americans support the goals of the deportation policy, while 56 percent disapprove of how enforcement is being carried out.