Immigration and Customs Enforcement
ICE collects data on every person it encounters, arrests, detains, transports via flight, and deports.
Getting started with ICE data
Our ICE frequently asked data questions is a good place to start before analyzing the data. We also provide a codebook describes each data table and the fields within them.
Latest data release
The most recent release of data covers ICE enforcement actions through late July 2025. We are actively seeking ongoing updates.
We recommend citing these data as “government data provided by ICE in response to a FOIA request to the Deportation Data Project and analyzed by [your organization].”
Download the complete latest release as a ZIP file (610 MB)
We are not posting a removals dataset in this release because we found that it included far fewer records in 2025 than the previous release (in late June). We remain concerned that the late June removals table may not include all relevant records, and that associated fields in the other tables, such as the departure date, may also create an incomplete picture of removals. These concerns lead us to advise caution when performing any analysis of removals in any ICE data release in 2025. If you have insight into these problems or find other concerns, please let us know. We are actively seeking updated and corrected data.
Linked data from 2012-2023
To enable longer-term analysis, we provide data for major ICE enforcement actions from October 2011 through September 2023 obtained by the ACLU.
The four tables are linked by unique identifiers for each noncitizen, but these identifiers differ from the latest data release and do not enable merging across the two data releases.
Download the complete release of 2012-2023 data as a ZIP file (2.6 GB)
Historical data archive
We post below historical data that ICE produced in response to several FOIA requests by multiple organizations. Crucially, in some data releases, there are linked identifiers across data types such as arrests and detainers, allowing merges that enable tracing immigrants’ pathways (anonymously) through the immigration enforcement pipeline. The identifiers are, unfortunately, different across releases, only enabling merging within a data release. See below for a description of each release.