Overview
- Researchers at UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project, using ICE records obtained through a public records request, report that total detentions rose by more than 1,000 percent in the second Trump term.
- Arrests moved into public spaces such as streets, immigration courts, and ICE offices, and arrests of people with no criminal record grew by about 770 percent.
- ICE expanded detention bed space about 4.5 times, and releases within 60 days dropped to roughly 7 percent.
- Internal deportations roughly multiplied by five as faster case handling pushed the share completed within two months from 27 percent to 57 percent.
- DHS rejected the analysis as biased and said 70 percent of those arrested had criminal records, but it has not released data to support that claim.