Femerable ice cream data ‘Laying Groundwork’ for mass portions, Proponents say | American immigration

American immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) arrested more than 8,200 people between January 22 and January 31, according to data, the department releases on social media.

The figures are the first public data in the new Trump administration’s promised mass settlement efforts and are part of a new tactic from the administration to promote its efforts to fulfill Donald Trump’s campaign promise to detain and deport millions of undocumented immigrants. The submissions highlight the daily number of arrests and relatives, which are requests to local law enforcement authorities to hold someone so that ice cream can withhold them.

Per. February 12, the agency has not released any new figures in 12 days. But on average, the administration has arrested 826 people a day since the president was inaugurated on January 20.

If ICE continues to arrest people in this rate, the administration is on its way to arrest almost 25,000 in the first 30 days, more than any other month in the last 11 years.

Data on monthly arrest data showing that preliminary January 2025 ICE arrest data is higher than historic average.

The agency has released the daily figures across its various social media profiles, mixed with photos of ICE agents arresting humans and a number of digital flyers with the names and alleged criminal stories for people withheld the agency, some marked with the motto “The worst first”.

But the data that ICE releases paints a misleading picture of what the administration is doing, says advocates.

“There is not much detailed details,” said Noelle Smart, main research assistant at the Vera Institute of Justice. Without access to the data ice, it is impossible to verify what the agency is launching.

“Data transparency is really critical, not only for having the statistics that the government lays out, but actually being able to independently validate them,” Smart said.

The recent arrest data from ICE does not say where the arrests were taking place or how many people the federal agents arrested had prior conviction, data points needed to understand whether the administration actually arrests the so -called worst first.

ICE has released misleading data in the past. According to A US Government’s Responsibility Office in July 2024ICE signed the number of people in immigration detention of tens of thousands. And recent reporting on highly published attacks across the country has found that IS exaggerates The number of criminals There is arrestedAt While sometimes sending a large number of operators in tactical gear from a number of agencies, Even uses Vehicles in military style and AccessoriesThere are protests in some places.

In the past years, most people arrested by ICE had not criminal beliefs about crimes. Although detailed statistics of arrested are not available in 2025, between October 2022 and November 2024, 78% of people arrested by the Agency had a wrongdoing with a wrongdoing or no conviction at all.

Only 21% of people had a crime of criminal conviction, a guardian analysis of monthly ice enforcement and removal operations.

The Agency has published data from 2014 to 2024 with less granular data on arrests, describing only whether each person who is arrested has any conviction at all. Since the pandemic, ICE has routinely arrested more people without any criminal conviction.

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Line diagram with two lines of Isarrestation Numbers, one of the arrests with criminal convictions, one of the arrests without criminal convictions. From 2021, the number of arrested without criminal convictions increased.

Posting on social media is a new, more public approach to the release of immigration data to IS.

Agency has plenty of numbers at high level of the number of arrests, detention and deportations on Agency’s WebsiteAlthough the data comes with a significant delay. But rolling through Ice’s social media shows that the agency hyperes the number of people with criminal convictions without data that backs up administration’s promises to deport people with conviction as the highest priority.

Lawyers say this is part of an advertising pressure of the administration.

“Public to advertise these isarred in an aggranded way, the use of military flights, negotiations with other countries to accept deportation flights,” said Colleen Putzel, associate policy analyst at Migration Policy Institute, “All of these pieces put basic work to the mass portion campaign, as Trump -Administration wants to perform. “

At the end of January, the administrative officials pressed Ice to significantly increase the number of arrests made by the agency, according to Reporting from Washington Post. And the Guardian US reported that the agency is manipulating Google search results to surface-year-old reports of RAID, in a seeming attempt to create the appearance of arrests happening at greater frequency.

But the lack of detailed data on where the agency drives creates an air of ubiquitous, as immigration advocates say, creates an environment of fear.

“Ice has a double strategy here right now. First is to scare and spread fear through headlines, threats stunts, and that on their own makes people afraid to leave their homes to go to work to go to school, ”said Nayna Gupta, Political Director at American Immigration Council.

She added: “When ICE engages in threats stunts, such as flashy updates on social media, publishing quotas and raids or using military aircraft to deport people, fear mounting may look like theater, but it actually hurts all American communities and local Economies because people stay home from work and school. “