393,000 Arrests. 153,000 Had No Criminal Record.
ICE made 393,000 arrests in the first year of the second Trump administration. Of those, 153,000 were “administrative arrests” of people with zero criminal record. Less than 14% of those arrested had violent criminal records. Less than 2% had homicide or sexual assault charges.
393,000 arrests. 153,000 with no criminal record. $170 billion allocated through 2029. 18 people died in detention. The ombudsman office has zero funding.
Congress allocated $170 billion to ICE and Border Patrol through September 2029, targeting one million deportations per year. The budget keeps growing while oversight keeps shrinking. The Immigration Detention Ombudsman has zero current funding.
What Enforcement Without Limits Looks Like
Eighteen people died in immigration detention this year. ICE held approximately 170 children on an average day — a six-fold increase from January 2025. ProPublica documented that ICE detained the parents of 11,000 U.S. citizen children in seven months.
In Chicago, 300 masked agents raided an apartment building at 1:00 AM. Four U.S. citizen children were zip-tied. In agriculture, 155,000 farm workers disappeared between March and July 2025. Wholesale vegetable prices jumped 39%.
The enforcement is not targeted at public safety threats. It is sweeping up workers, parents, and taxpayers who pay $96.7 billion in annual taxes.
What You Can Do
- Demand detention oversight →
- Call your U.S. senators and demand that ICE funding include independent oversight and due process protections.
- Read the immigration hub for the full picture.
Update, June 23, 2026: The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Blanche v. Lau that border officers do not need clear and convincing evidence that a lawful permanent resident committed a crime before reclassifying them as an applicant for admission rather than a returning resident. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the majority opinion; Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, writing that the Court had handed the government a “massive blank check” to diminish the legal protections attached to a green card.
The case centered on Muk Choi Lau, a Chinese-born green card holder charged with trademark counterfeiting in New Jersey in 2012, whose green card was confiscated when he re-entered the United States from abroad. The Second Circuit had ruled in his favor, finding the government lacked sufficient evidence at the time of reclassification, but the Supreme Court vacated that judgment.
Nancy Morawetz, director of the Crimmigration Clinic at NYU, told Mother Jones she expects border officers to “overuse” the authority the ruling grants, particularly against green card holders with drug-related charges. Allen Orr, former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said the decision lowers the due process threshold green card holders are entitled to and reported that clients with green cards are already refusing to travel internationally.
Update, July 13, 2026: GEO Group announced plans to open the Big Horn Facility, a 1,200-bed immigration detention center in Hudson, Colorado, converting a building that last operated as a state prison in 2014. The facility is owned by a subsidiary of Highlands REIT, a Chicago-based real estate investment trust, which will receive $250,000 per month starting August 1, with rent rising to nearly $1 million monthly within six months of occupancy or when the facility reaches population.
GEO Group projects $85 million in annual revenue from the Hudson facility in its first full year of operations, according to federal securities filings reported by Colorado Public Radio. The Aurora ICE Processing Center, also operated by GEO Group, expanded to 1,530 beds and was reported to be nearing capacity, data provided to Rep. Jason Crow’s office confirmed.
The ACLU of Colorado previously sued the Department of Homeland Security over a FOIA request tied to ICE detention expansion in the state, resulting in heavily redacted documents confirming the agency had scouted multiple Colorado locations. Andrea Loya, director of Casa de Paz, said she documented construction and infrastructure work at the Hudson site since February despite city officials denying the project was underway.