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> It’s an objective fact that ICE was removing almost 3× as many people per month this time last year It is? What is your source for this? According to TRAC'
by tomjakubowski 1y ago
> It’s an objective fact that ICE was removing almost 3× as many people per month this time last year
It is? What is your source for this?
According to TRAC's published stats, in May 2024, ICE booked 8,451 people into detention. In May 2025, ICE booked 23,662 people into detention.
https://tracreports.org/immigration/detentionstats/book_in_agen_program_table.html https://tracreports.org/immigration/detentionstats/book_in_a...
- db48x 1y agoI should probably have said “removed” rather than “arrested”, since not every person removed gets arrested. I am using the DHS’s own statistics <https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/yearbook/2022/table39 https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/yearbook/2022/table3...> which cover every year from 1892 to 2022. For Biden’s term and Trump’s current term I used estimates found in news reports though I don’t have the links in front of me. The estimate for Trump’s current term was just for the first four months of the year.