Data Source: Calculated by the Prison Policy Initiative from the ICE arrest database tables from Jan. 20 - June 26, 2025 published by the Deportation Data Project & the Census Bureau's Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for July 1, 2024. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2025)
This graph originally appeared in Hiding in Plain Sight: How local jails obscure and facilitate mass deportation under Trump.
Data from May 2025 show that in states like California and Massachusetts, which have sanctuary policies limiting collaboration with federal immigration authorities, field operations have been the source of the majority of ICE arrests. In Florida and Texas, where state and local officials have enthusiastically collaborated with federal authorities, most ICE arrests have taken place in local jails.
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- February 25, 2026:
On February 25, 2026 at 1 p.m. EST, join the Prison Policy Initiative and guests James Kilgore and Mon Mohapatra to discuss ways to push back on “carceral humanist” reforms that don’t change the underlying dehumanization of the criminal legal system.
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