To deliver on President Trump\u2019s campaign promise to deport millions of people, his administration is pushing new approaches to immigration enforcement across much of the government.<\/p>\n
Officials have closed the border to asylum-seekers. They have unleashed immigration officers, often wearing masks, to make arrests on city streets. They have revoked legal status from recent arrivals. They have built new tent camps and re-opened prisons to hold immigrant detainees. They have pushed foreign leaders to accept deportees and local officials to allow ICE agents into their facilities and databases.<\/p>\n
As the crackdown progresses and the border remains essentially closed, both the people targeted for deportation and their journeys through the system now look very different, a New York Times analysis of government data shows.<\/p>\n
Most people who were deported during President Joseph R. Biden Jr.\u2019s administration were among the millions of recent arrivals arrested at the border. They were detained and quickly deported through a process called expedited removal.<\/p>\n
As border crossings dried up, Mr. Trump lifted restrictions on whom immigration officers could target elsewhere in the country. More deportees are now drawn from this wider pool. People are typically held in detention until they can be removed, and far fewer people are released.<\/p>\n
As border crossings dried up, Mr. Trump lifted restrictions on whom immigration officers could target elsewhere in the country. More deportees are now drawn from this wider pool. People are typically held in detention until they can be removed, and far fewer people are released.<\/p>\n
Note: Each chart shows the average monthly volume of arrests, releases and deportations by type. Expedited removal includes reinstated removal orders. Only border arrests that led to a transfer to ICE for detention or deportation are included. For the Biden chart, data is from Jan. 1, 2024, through Jan. 19, 2025. For the Trump chart, data is from Jan. 20, 2025, through July 28.<\/p>\n
The New York Times<\/p>\n
The data, which includes every arrest, detention stay and deportation conducted by ICE, was obtained through a lawsuit and made available by the Deportation Data Project<\/a>, an academic group.<\/p>\n It shows in great detail the impacts of Mr. Trump\u2019s policies, including which communities have been most affected and the sometimes complicated paths people must travel as the government tries to remove them.<\/p>\n Many of the people ICE is now targeting entered legally in recent years under special programs created by Mr. Biden. Mr. Trump canceled those programs and has tried to revoke the legal status of their participants.<\/p>\n Where ICE makes arrests<\/p>\n The Trump administration has said it would prioritize deporting the \u201cworst of the worst criminal illegal aliens.\u201d<\/p>\n Historically, ICE detained immigrants who had committed crimes through \u201ccustodial\u201d arrests \u2014 picking up people who had already been arrested by other law enforcement agencies from jails and prisons.<\/p>\n While custodial arrests still make up half of all immigration arrests, ICE has increasingly gone after anyone who may be in the country illegally, whether they have a criminal record or not<\/a>.<\/p>\n Most ICE arrests at jails and prisons<\/strong> take place in Republican-led states like Florida, Georgia and Texas.<\/p>\n The rest are \u201cat-large\u201d , which are more common in states led by Democrats, like California and New York, where many local agencies do not cooperate with ICE.<\/p>\n Note: Data is from Jan. 20 through Oct. 15. Each location is the county of the first detention facility after arrest. Not shown is data for U.S. areas outside the 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington D.C.<\/p>\n The New York Times<\/p>\n More people who have been in the country for years or decades are being swept up and removed. More than 3,000 adults who entered before the age of 16 \u2014 potential \u201cDreamers\u201d<\/a> \u2014 have been deported, as have more than 4,000 children.<\/p>\n Where they are held<\/p>\n In the past, most people who were arrested were released to await their day in immigration court. Illegal immigration is a civil \u2014 not a criminal \u2014 offense, and detention was designed to hold only those deemed a flight risk.<\/p>\n But the Trump administration told ICE to hold people indefinitely and told immigration judges that most people are no longer eligible<\/a> for bail. The Laken Riley Act<\/a>, passed in January, further narrowed who can be released.<\/p>\n Immigrant d<\/strong>etention centers<\/strong> are filling up, even as the Trump administration has opened dozens of new facilities to expand the capacity and reach of this network.<\/p>\n New facilities under Trump<\/p>\n Note: Squares are sized based on the average number of people detained at the facility each day from Jan. 20 through Oct. 15. Only facilities in the 50 states and Puerto Rico with an average population of at least one are shown. Hold rooms, medical facilities and hotels are excluded.<\/p>\n The New York Times<\/p>\n The detained population has nearly doubled, to more than 68,000 people in December, an all-time high.<\/p>\n People detained by ICE have described unsanitary and unsafe conditions<\/a> in some detention centers \u2014 including rotten food, a lack of access to showers and toilets, and the use of solitary confinement<\/a>. At least 32 people have died in ICE custody since Mr. Trump took office, more than the number in Mr. Biden\u2019s entire four years in office.<\/p>\n Officials have denied claims of poor conditions and mistreatment of detainees.<\/p>\n Because detention facilities are concentrated in the South, people arrested elsewhere are often quickly transferred long distances to places where there is space, often in Texas and Louisiana, far from family and lawyers.<\/p>\n Each line here represents the average monthly volume of transfers of immigrant detainees<\/strong> between detention facilities. Darker lines reflect higher numbers of detainee transfers.<\/p>\n Note: For the Biden map, data is from Jan. 1, 2024, through Jan. 19, 2025. For the Trump map, data is from Jan. 20 through July 28.<\/p>\n The New York Times<\/p>\n People are moving around the system more than last year \u2014 passing through an average of three different facilities over seven weeks before they are deported. Immigration lawyers say the process has caused some people to give up their asylum cases and to agree to be deported.<\/p>\n Where deported people go<\/p>\n The Trump administration has deported people to almost every country in the world, including those that had resisted taking back their citizens. It has sent people to repressive regimes, including Afghanistan, Iran<\/a> and Russia, and it has pressed countries like South Sudan and Uganda to accept deportees from far-away places who have no ties to those countries.<\/p>\n Detailed data on ICE removals was available only through the end of July, but it showed that the monthly pace of deportations<\/strong> had more than doubled compared with last year for people from more than 100 places.<\/p>\n Note: Data is from Jan. 20 through July 28. Data for countries with fewer than one removal each month is not shown.<\/p>\n The New York Times<\/p>\n China, India, Russia, Panama, Turkey and Vietnam were among the countries with the largest increases. The pace of deportations to the Northern Triangle of Central America has actually slowed somewhat because fewer people from those countries are crossing the border.<\/p>\n An analysis of less detailed data on deportations shows that their pace accelerated<\/a> after July; as of December, ICE is on track to deport about 390,000 people in Mr. Trump\u2019s first year.<\/p>\n The Trump administration has redrawn the map of immigration enforcement. Under pressure to expand further<\/a> \u2014 and mounting backlash from the public \u2014 these patterns may change again.<\/p>\n About the data<\/p>\n The data comes from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and was obtained by the Deportation Data Project<\/a> through a public records lawsuit. It covers every arrest, detention stay and deportation conducted by ICE through Oct. 15, 2025, for arrests and detentions, and through July 28, 2025, for deportations.<\/p>\n To analyze how people moved from arrest to detention to deportation, we combined the data using anonymized, person-specific identifiers in the data and processed it to remove duplicates. In some cases, we removed rows with missing fields.<\/p>\n For the animated maps, each dot shows one person per month traveling between detention facilities, ports of departure and destination countries. Routes with fewer than five average people per month are not shown. The numbers of removals and transfers shown are for the period from Jan. 20 to July 28, 2025, normalized to a 30-day monthly average.<\/p>\n We identified the locations of detention facilities through a combination of addresses from ICE\u2019s biweekly detention management report, a public records request filed by The Times, and data published by the Vera Institute of Justice<\/a> and The Marshall Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n We categorized arrests \u201cwhile in custody\u201d to be those with an apprehension method listed as \u201cCAP Incarceration\u201d or \u201cCustodial Arrest.\u201d All other arrests conducted by ICE were categorized as \u201cfrom the community,\u201d except those with a final program listed as Border Patrol. 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