Report on First Nine Months of Immigration Enforcement Under Trump II

[Deportation Data Updates]

We have just posted our first data analysis, releasing a report on interior immigration enforcement during the first nine months of the second Trump administration. 

The report finds that deportations starting with ICE arrests increased by four and a half times during the first nine months of the Trump administration. Documenting the role of each stage of the enforcement process, it finds that arrests quadrupled; street arrests went up by a factor of 11, and arrests of people without any criminal convictions went up by a factor of seven. Finally, the already-low chance of release from detention (16%) within two months of arrest fell to just three percent, and voluntary departures went up by a factor of over 20.

There’s no underlying data update to announce: this report relies on the previous ICE data release, which covers enforcement through October 15, 2025. We always promptly release data we receive from the government; all Deportation Data Project analysis will use data we have already made public, and we will never hold data before release for our own use.