TOPIC · LAST VERIFIED AUGUST 13, 2026

ICE enforcement & detention

Verified federal updates on ICE interior arrests, detention and removals—plus clearly separated CBP enforcement at airports and other ports of entry.

Important data note: Federal enforcement data is not a live raid tracker. ICE publishes national and field-office statistics after a reporting delay, while CBP separately reports encounters and arrests at airports, land ports and borders. We label the agency and reporting period so unlike numbers are not combined.

Latest official ICE snapshot

The newest nationwide ICE arrest totals currently displayed in ICE’s public annual report are for fiscal year 2024. The separate ICE dashboard says its arrest, detention, removal and alternatives-to-detention data cover activity through December 31, 2024 and are published one quarter in arrears. Later official corrections can replace earlier figures.

ICE ERO · FY 2024113,431administrative arrests
ICE ERO · FY 202433,243at-large arrests
ICE HSI · FY 202432,608criminal arrests

Check the ICE annual report ↗ · Open the ICE statistics dashboard ↗

OFFICIAL AGENCY MEDIA · RELEASED APRIL 2025

A visual example of ICE enforcement activity

Source and context: “Weekly ICE Video — Making America Safe Again,” released by DHS and dated April 7, 2025. This agency-produced video is included as a visual example only. It is not independent reporting and does not establish current national, airport, detention or city-level totals. View the original DHS record, description and download information ↗

Airports and ports of entry

Airport immigration inspections are generally conducted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Field Operations, not ICE ERO. ICE may make an arrest at or near an airport, but an isolated agency release does not establish a citywide or national trend. This page will report airport developments only when ICE, DHS or CBP publishes a dated official release or dataset.

For context, CBP’s official “Typical Day” summary for fiscal year 2024 reports approximate daily averages of 86 wanted-person arrests at U.S. ports of entry and 49 between ports of entry. Those figures cover all ports of entry—not airports alone—and should not be read as ICE arrests.

View CBP’s FY 2024 methodology and figures ↗

City, field-office and detention searches

ICE’s public arrest dashboard groups geography by 25 Enforcement and Removal Operations areas of responsibility, which can cover multiple cities and states. We will publish a “most arrests” or “most detention” ranking only when a current official dataset provides comparable geographic totals. Individual news releases are examples, not a complete ranking.

What this topic will update

Editorial standard: U.S. Immigration Brief does not publish rumors, crowd-sourced raid maps, operationally sensitive live tracking, or names of arrested individuals. Figures above are transcribed from linked federal sources and were last checked August 13, 2026. No newer comparable ICE or CBP dataset was identified in this review.

Legal information, not legal advice. This page summarizes public federal data and does not provide case-specific guidance or create an attorney-client relationship.

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