Immigration arrests in the U.S. have soared in recent months, aided by more local law enforcement cooperation with ICE, increased use of technology to track and process people, as well as enhanced data sharing between federal agencies.
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ICE arrests keep soaring. Here’s why they are not leading to more deportations.
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Miriam Moran, whose mother has been detained by ICE without a deportation order for the past five months, poses for a portrait Sept. 8 at an apartment building in San Francisco.
Roberto Avalos and Dolores Mendoza, who were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Sept. 9, pose in a family photograph with their son and grandchildren in September 2025 in Alabama.
Miriam Moran, whose mother has been detained by ICE without a deportation order for the past five months, walks Sept. 8 in San Francisco.
A detainee boards a deportation flight Dec. 5 on a GlobalX Air plane at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in St. Paul, Minn.
The state-run immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” violated a host of federal and state detent…
The federal indictment marked the first Justice Department prosecution of a federal law enforcement officer accused of wrongdoing arising from…
The shooting is the latest in a series of incidents involving ICE, which has become the face of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
Just as there was a record number of hires, there was also a record number of people who left ICE. Here’s what we learned.
ICE agents arrested an average of one person every 54 seconds in July. AJLabs examines a record month for deportations.
Some states with policies restricting jail transfers to ICE saw high rates of street arrests amid the administration’s attacks on those policies.
About 21,000 Haitian TPS holders worked in the U.S. as caregivers, serving roughly 77,000 patients.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement shared more than 460,000 leads with ICE since January 2025, internal data showed.
