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Will Craft

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New from @us.theguardian.com: A Guardian analysis using new data from the Deportation Data Project provides a detailed picture of surging arrests and a detention system that’s stretched beyond capacity.

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The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency does not publish daily arrest, detention and deportation data. But a team of lawyers and academics from the Deportation Data Project used a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to obtain a dataset that provides the most detailed picture yet of the US immigration enforcement and detention system under Trump.

A Guardian analysis of the dataset found:

In June this year, average daily arrests were up 268% compared with June 2024.

Ice is increasingly targeting any and all unauthorized immigrants, including people who have no criminal records.

Despite Trump’s claims that his administration is seeking out the “worst of the worst”, the majority of people being arrested by Ice now have no criminal convictions.

Detention facilities have been increasingly overcrowded, and the US system is over capacity by more than 13,500 people.

The number of deportations, however, has fluctuated as the administration pursues new strategies and policies to swiftly expel people from the US.

The US government has deported more than 8,100 people to countries that are not their home country.

July 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM

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Will Craft

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Deportation numbers haven't risen as drastically as arrests, but one pattern has emerged from the data: The Trump administration is trying to send more people to countries where they are not citizens. We found 8,100 people sent to third countries. The biggest group? Venezuelans deported to Mexcio

Chart of the number of 3rd country deportations.

July 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM

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Will Craft

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Detention facilities are at record highs, with a daily average of nearly 60,000 people held across the country in June, far more than the number of beds that Congress has allocated for Ice detention

Chart of daily average detention numbers

July 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM

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Will Craft

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Trump has drastically reshaped immigration enforcement over the last 6 months. Our analysis found that for the first time, people without criminal records are being arrested in higher numbers than any other group

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Chart showing 7 day rolling average number of arrests, no criminal record is the highest in June

July 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM

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June 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM

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Shocking. How do we stop this?
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Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website

Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters ‘DEI’ added to website address

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March 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM

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