The agency blames government shutdowns for the delay, despite billions in new funding.

ICE hasn’t released its semimonthly “Detention Management” report on arrests, detentions and deportations since April 9, when the agency reported holding more than 60,000 people in custody.

News media, think tanks and academia have requested the missing data, and ICE has refused to deliver it, sparking at least three separate lawsuits, including one by a far-right group demanding the “true deportation statistics.”

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260716120509/https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/15/ice-data-immigration-detention-transparency

  • halloween_spooksterEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Laws require people to enforce them. Otherwise they are just ink on a page. If the people that have been tasked with enforcement are the ones breaking the law…