The latest federal data shows that the share of detainees arrested by ICE increased from 27% at the start of the fiscal year — which is October 2023 — to 37% of the detainee population in fiscal year 2024.
Meanwhile, the share of detainees arrested by CBP dropped by 10 percentage points, decreasing from 73% at the start of the fiscal year to 63% today, marking the lowest share since May 2023.
The findings come from a new report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. The report states that these trends follow the Biden administration’s June policy restricting access to asylum for those attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border without authorization. The executive order included a penalty that anyone attempting to cross without authorization would be generally ineligible for asylum, which was added to discourage entries.
The number of immigrants in ICE’s Alternatives to Detention program also continues to fall, TRAC notes. As of Aug. 10, ICE monitored 174,676 individuals, which is less than half of the nearly 378,000 monitored in December 2022.
ICE detention stats show that as of August 2024:
- — ICE held 36,326 detainees.
- — 59% of detainees (21,432) had no criminal record; many had only minor offenses including traffic violations.
- — Texas housed the most detainees in FY 2024.
- — The South Texas ICE Processing Center held the most detainees, averaging 1,595 per day.
- — ICE arrested 8,012 of the 23,440 people detained in July 2024, with CBP arresting 15,428.
- — Chicago’s area office had the highest number of individuals enrolled in ICE’s Alternatives to Detention program as of August 10, 2024.
- — ATD programs are currently monitoring 174,676 families and single individuals.
The top 10 countries seeing the most immigrants deported this fiscal year (as of July 2024) are Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua, China, Haiti, and Ecuador.
