Category: Executive & Enforcement
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The Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network has published this recommendation (not legal advice) What to do if Faced with Third-Country Deportation
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This article provides basic information and data about deportations. In April, ICE records show that 17,200 people were deported. Deportation flights are up from 4-4.5/day to 6-6.5/day. But the average number of deportations per day is less than 1000. The White House target is 3000 deportations per day.
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The KINO Border Initiative runs a shelter in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico that is currently receiving people who have been deported into Mexico. Their recent report “They Didn’t Let Me Say Bye” provides information about 278 deportees that were interviewed at the shelter during May, June, and July, 2025. Here is some highlights from the survey…
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David Bier, Director of Immigration Studies at the CATO Institute, has written this post which lists the number of personnel that are now assisting ICE. They are from DHS (Customs and Border Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations, USCIS) and DOJ (ATF, DEA, FBI, etc) along with state police, local law enforcement (both 287g and not 287g).…
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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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