Source

Government data provided by ICE in response to a FOIA request to the Deportation Data Projectand analyzed by Stop AAPI Hate.

Methodology

We used the Deportation Data Project’s (DDP) processed datasets for these dashboards.

To count arrests, we used DDP's flag in the arrests dataset to remove duplicates. We also removed arrests without a corresponding unique ID to align with both DDP's and UCLA'smethodologies. Arrests include those that did or did not result in detention or deportation.

To identify detentions and deportations that were a direct result of an ICE arrest, we used DDP's methodologyto join the arrests and detention stays datasets, where any arrest that happened ten days or less before a detention entry or less than five days after a detention entry is linked to that detention. This accounts for cases where DDP believes arrest dates and/or detention book-in dates are approximate. We then joined this dataset with the detention stints dataset to pull in state data, which is missing from the detention stays dataset. To identify out-of-state detentions, we compared this state to the apprehension state. If a detention included at least one state other than the apprehension state, we counted this as one out-of-state detention.

Counts reflect total number of arrests, detention entries, and deportations, not number of people. One person can be arrested, detained, or deported more than once. Deaths in ICE custody are collected from ICE's Detainee Death Reportingsite.

ICE does not capture race in the arrests dataset. We used citizenship country to identify A/PI arrests and applied the same logic to the detention stays dataset for consistency and to allow for comparisons. A/PI data includes citizenship countries that lie within Central, East, South, and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Since ICE only captures birth year, not birth date, we estimated age by subtracting birth year from the year of arrest, detention, or deportation.

To compare administrations, we analyzed the time periods under the current Trump administration (Jan 20, 2025 to the most recent date available) and the previous administration (calculating the start date based on the number of days in the Trump time period through Jan 19, 2025.)

Data does not include actions by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Due to data limitations, missing data, and potential errors in ICE's datasets, reported results are estimates and may be imprecise.