Population at the Mesa facility dropped sharply in the seven days after Democrats Yassamin Ansari and Greg Stanton announced their visit — then climbed again almost immediately after
story via @jerodmacevoy.com
Immigration arrests of people without criminal convictions have increased eightfold under President Trump, report says.
“Even as ICE has arrested more people who likely could win their cases and stay in the United States, arrests have been ending more often in deportation,” Professor David Hausman, co-director of the Deportation Data Project tells @nbcnews.com: https://nbcnews.to/4mlyKuP #BerkeleyLaw
Graph showing rapid increase in child detention, starting shortly after Trump takes office.
ICE has detained 6,200 children in Trump's 2nd term. The average daily population dropped in recent months. But it's hard to know if it's a longterm trend.
But, worth noting: Trump's new budget request, asks for 30,000 family detention beds.
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/04/06/i...
More here: deportationdata.org/analysis/imm...
All the data is freely available and the analysis code is linked in the report.
You can read about our FOIA request and litigation that led to getting these data and posting last month here: deportationdata.org/foia.html
Plot of voluntary departures by week from July 2024 to January 2026 showing exponential growth in 2025 leveling off at a high rate of over ~2500 per week in early 2026.
Together, the administration's detention apparatus is forcing noncitizens into a difficult choice, stay in detention and likely be removed, or give up their case. Many are choosing to give up.
So-called voluntary departures are up **28x** under the new administration.
Plot of divergent trends in border arrests (down significantly in end of Biden administration and continuing through Trump administration and arrests inside the US which go up 4.4x over this period.
The other big reason is that border arrests are way down, a trend that began under Biden and continued under the new Trump administration. Tens of thousands of beds were made available because of this.
Plot of total overnight detainees over time for newly-built facilities like Alligator Alcatraz which go up in 2025 starting in July but still represent a small proportion compared to all other facilities, which go up more and faster.
The second reason is the greatly expanded availability of detention beds for arrests inside the US.
These come from the large facilities built by the new administration like Alligator Alcatraz, but while those are a growing % most are elsewhere in existing facilities, some w/ expanded contracts.
City-by-city arrest counts by week for LA, DC, Chicago, and Minneapolis illustrate the largescale immigration raids in those cities beginning June 2025 and continuing through January 2026.
Street arrests happen both in highly visible ways -- in the raids in LA, DC, Chicago, and Minneapolis
But we show that is a small % of total street arrests — just 15% at the height of the MN surge.
They are happening across the country at ICE check-ins, in immigration court, and in neighborhoods.
Plot of custodial arrests and street arrests over time by week from July 2024 to January 2026 showing marked increase especially of street arrests.
One reason deportations skyrocketed was the well-known pattern of "street arrests", which we show increase increased by *11x* since the last half of the Biden admin
But custodial transfers from jails or prisons also went up, doubling over the first year of the new administration
Interior Deportations by ICE Increased by Five Times from last half of 2024 to January 2026
📖 New report out today
Deportations up 5x, ICE street arrests jump 11x in first year of Trump administration, according new data released last month
We break down why below & in the report 👇
deportationdata.org/analysis/imm...
1/3 of the U.S. now lives in a county where local authorities have agreements with ICE, allowing them to question and detain people. When local policing & federal immigration enforcement get mixed up, it creates fear & mistrust in communities, making everyone less safe.
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A bar graph entitled Nightly Population Detained by ICE at Moshannon Valley Processing Center. Max population detained was 1719 people on January 9, 2026.
I made charts that show the population at 568 locations where ICE has detained someone overnight.
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ICE has detained over 6,200 children under Trump according to new data. That's up 10x Since Biden Left Office. “Every American should be shocked,” Leecia Welch, at Children's Rights, said. “It just adds up to an incredible amount of trauma.”
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/04/06/i...
The 287(g) program is managed by the same office in ICE, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), that has ignored Congressionally-mandated updates re: the agency's detention/arrest/removal numbers...until @deportationdata.org fought and won access this week.
deportationdata.org/news/2026-03...
My colleague @katereports.bsky.social & I found most of those Minnesota residents were deported to Latin American countries, including almost 600 people returned to Mexico and about 520 deported to Ecuador. At least 17 minors were also deported. (2) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Almost half of the people arrested by federal agents this winter in Minnesota have already been deported, according to new data released to the @deportationdata.org through a FOIA lawsuit. It's the clearest picture yet of federal activities in the state. (1)
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