Category: Executive & Enforcement
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This blog post, from David Bier the Director of Immigration Studies at the CATO Institute in 2020, describes some erroneously-issued ICE detainers – some due to mistaken identity, some due to lack of change in immigration status in government databases.
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Global Crossing Airlines (GlobalX) is the charter company that operates the majority of ICE deportations flights. From The Guardian, this article provides an overview of flights internal to the U.S. and deportation flights to countries of origin and third countries. In addition to the data, some individual testimonials illustrate the movement of detainees within the…
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With an analysis of government data, TRAC reporting shows that Mexicans detained by ICE are more likely to remain behind bars that people from other countries. Read about this here.
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This CATO Institute article, “ICE is arresting 1100% more noncriminals on the street than it did in 2017“ uses data obtained by FOIA from DeportationData.org, to show the following: Check out the various charts showing arrest types changing over time.
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The CATO Institute reports that data from ICE/DHS shows that one in five ICE arrests are Latinos on the street with no criminal past and no removal order. This means, according to the article, that these people have likely been profiled and randomly picked up instead of their arrests being the result of careful research…
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Watch this 5-minute video about a border celebration in Agua Prieta, Sonora and Douglas, Arizona (August, 2025)
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This article, in Seattle PI, describes work done by volunteers to monitor and track ICE flights – both internal repositioning flights as well as deportation flights. The work of monitoring and tracking flights which was previously handled by Witness at the Border has been transferred to Human Rights First – and is called ICE Flight…
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The Tucson Sentinel reports that ICE is managing a little-known detention facility at the Phoenix-Mesa Gatway Airport which holds 157 detainees. The AROCC (Arizona Removal Operations Coordination Center) is conveniently located to deportation flights. The Deportation Data Project continues to request government data with an on-going Freedom of Information Act request.
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This is Austin Kocker and Adam Sawyer’s blog post which is a good way to learn more about immigration detention centers. He reports that immigraton detention centers are reporting a recond number of 61,226 detainees. (This may be undercounted because of local holding facilities of various kinds.)
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This article describes a recent report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of the Census which shows that between January and July, 2025, 1.2 million foreign born workers (authorized and unauthorized) left the labor force. This was the result of detentions, deportations, and “work “no shows” due to fear of detention/deportation and no new incoming labor. Unauthorized…
Immigration Insight 