ICE shifts tactics, surging at-large arrests in communities
Dec 28, 2025
In September 2025, ICE made approximately 17,500 at-large arrests. Government data shows that more than 60 percent of people detained in at-large arrests since June lack criminal convictions or pending charges. The weekly rate of at-large arrests in September 2025 was more than four times the weekly rate from Trump's first term.
Sources
- ICE shift in tactics leads to soaring number of at-large arrests, data show
Boston Globe·Dec 29, 2025·archived copy
- wapo.st
- ICE At-Large Arrests Has More Than Doubled as Enforcement Shifts to Communities: Report
latintimes.com·Jan 3, 2026·archived copy
- ICE shift in tactics leads to soaring number of at-large arrests, data shows
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