Border arrests down, but Ice arrests in February are the highest in 7 years

Two lines representing Cpb and Ice arrests, per month since October 2018. Ice arrested more people twice, during the pandemic and in 2025 during the Trump administration.

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Guardian graphic. Data for each month represents the number of people booked into a detention facility by which agency they were arrested by. Title 42 allowed authorities to turn away immigrants at the border. Source: Fiscal Year 2025 data from Ice Detention Management. Previous years from Vera Institute of Justice.