ICE data release: Oct. 2022 to early-Mar. 2026
Sixth ICE Data Release Under New Administration
We have released ICE data updated through March 10, 2026, now also including data back to October 1, 2022. We received these datasets late on March 27; as always, we release data as quickly as possible after checking it.
The update includes every ICE encounter, detainer request, arrest, book-in to detention, and removal between October 1, 2022 and March 10, 2026. This adds almost five months of data to the previous release, which ran through October 15, 2025, as well as eleven months of data from fiscal year 2023.
We have several concerns about the new dataset.
First, and most important, we continue to have questions about the reliability of the encounters and removals data. These encounters and removals datasets are similar to the October versions but different from the late July release that we believe was most reliable. A comparison of the October and late July removals datasets is available here.
Second, in this version of the dataset, ICE omitted detention stints in hospitals and medical centers. This affects a small number of stints relative to the total—and therefore should not prevent analysis of the detention data—but it makes analysis of hospital stints impossible.
Third, ICE has redacted the “case_category” values for some individuals; comparing this release to previous releases suggests that these are mostly individuals who had credible fear interviews. For some of the individuals, ICE has also redacted detention release reasons (in the detentions table) and processing disposition values (in the encounters and removals tables). To obtain some of this missing information, we suggest joining the detention and removals tables to determine which individuals were booked out to be removed.
Finally, ICE has renamed several variables in this release. In our processed versions of the datasets, we have preserved the previous names for clarity.
We have posted processed versions of each table to the website, along with tools that allow users to filter the data and download subsets. We are in the process of updating the ICE codebook.
We obtained the new dataset through a FOIA lawsuit brought by Faculty Fellow Elora Mukherjee, represented by the Law Office of Amber Qureshi, who is also a co-director of the Deportation Data Project.