ICE has hit a new record pace for deportations, averaging more than 1,450 deportations a day in the middle of January, according to the agency’s latest data.
It was also booking in migrants at a rate of more than 1,500 a day, which is also a record pace.
And as of Jan. 25, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had more than 70,000 migrants in detention, yet another record.
The data covers the period from Jan. 8 through Jan. 25.
ICE’s detention capacity has risen since last summer, when Congress pumped tens of billions of dollars into the agency to hire new officers and rent more bed space. Officials said they should eventually be able to maintain more than 100,000 beds.
The 70,766 beds occupied as of Jan. 25 is up dramatically from a year ago, when ICE had 39,328.
And 84% of those are ICE arrests from the interior of the country. Just 16% of those cases are from Customs and Border Protection.
By contrast, last year, 62% of the cases were CBP arrests.
Both book-ins and removals are also well above the rate at this point last year, which was just days into the new Trump administration.
At that time, ICE was averaging fewer than 300 book-ins a day. It’s now operating at five times that rate.
And it was formally removing about 630 people a day at this time in 2025 — and a large portion of those were border cases.
Now, it’s more than doubled that deportation rate, and given the calm at the border, almost all of the current removals were migrants arrested in the interior.
