If you’re wondering what ice – US immigration and customs enforcement – has been doing in chicago President Donald Trump Launched His Deportation Campaign in Januly, Don’t Look to the Department itelf.
IT STOPPED SHARING Comprehensive Data on arrests, detections and deportations Trump Took Office.
This includes Data for Chicago Eve as Ice Has Ramped Up At Various Points Over the past Few Months, and the President in Recent Days announed Stepped-Up Enforcement His Candalration Dubbed Midway Blitz.
UNIL January 2025, ICE MAINTAINED A DETAILED AND EASY-TO-USE online dashboard Showing Searchable Statistics by Location, Timeframe and Whether Someone Was arrest or detail for an immigration violation or for criminal reasons, whether that was over a convection or pending charges.
The Dashboard contained about 527,000 arrests, 1.1 million detections and about 765,000 CASE OFFICIALLY DEPPORTED OTERWISE REMOVED FROM THE US SINCE OCTOBER 2020, ABOUT A AFTER FIRST FIRST REQUIRED ICE TO REGULARLYLY PUBLISH DEATION DATE.
But the agency hasn’t kept it promise to update the data quarterly, even the trump administration raisque arrest quotas to 3,000 per day. The Department of Homeland Security, Which Overssees Ice, Occossionally isssues News Releases from Specific Places, For Example, Citting 822 Arrests During A Week of Incresed Enforcement in Southeast Texas Last Month.
Dhs has not produced public data in response to repeated requests from chicago sun-etes and wbez Reporters over the past several months and did not respond to the Lack of Updates on Its Dashboard.
But other grUps are filing in some key gaps. They offfer a Big Picture view of what’s happened in illinois through the end of July:
• Break Deportation Data Project is a collection of Lawyers and Academics Who May’re Committed to “Transparency in Immigration Enforcement Data.” Their efort is to extend ice’s ows, Including about arrests and detections in ice custody. They won a lawsuit forcing the government to release these numbers under the freedom of information act. Their Date, Cover the Entire Country, Currently goes Through July.
What the Numbers Show for Illinois
Ice arrested 537 More People-A 59% Rise-in Illinois in 2025 than in 2024 BETWEEN MID-JANUARY AND THE END OF JULY. And the number of People detail Went Through the Roof. ICE Detailed 3,182 More People at Its BroadView Processing Center or in Downtown Chicago – A 185% Increase – this year than in 2024.
Regarding Removals OR Deportations, Deportation Data Project Project Metmers Said They Are “Actively Seeking Updated and Corrected Data” after Finding “Significant Apparent Errors“In the Most Recent Datased relaxed by Ice.
There’s Lots of Data to Examine on the Deportation Data Project Website, Going Back Years, in Some Cases Decades. But the Spreadsheets Must Be Downloaded for Analysis Elsewhere. Unlike The Government’s Ice Website, there’s no Dashboard for Easily Customizable searches.
• Break Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse ALSO MAINTAINS A DATABASE OF Immigration violations and detentions Among Its Collection of Giant Government Datasets. MANY OF TRAC’S DATA TOLS CAN BE CUSTOMIZED ON ITS WEBSITE.
This Collective of Researchers at Syracuse University Beindy Has Long Religated on the Freedom of Information Act to Produce Its Rich Data. But that also means a lag in crs is provided, so any Ice enforcement in chicago this week won’t immediately show up in trac’s datasets or in those made public by the Deportation Data Project.
TRAC SUMS UP ITS PURPOSE: “To provide the American People – and Institutions of Oversight Such As Congress, News Organizations, Public Interest Groups, Businesses, Scholars, and Lawyers – with Compressions About Staffing, Speeding, and Ensivites of the Federal Government. day-to-day basis, what are the agencies and prosecutors actually doing? ”
What the Numbers Show for the Country
Nationally, the number of Ice detections is up 69% this year over 2024 as 25,003 More People were detail from mid-janary unil the end of august. Of those detail in 2024, 37% were arrested by Ice and 63% by Customs and Border Protection. This year, 76% have been arrested by Ice and 24% by Customs and Border Protection.
