Arrests did not recover their pace during the first 9 days of August. As of August 9, 2025, slightly fewer daily arrests took place than in July so the drop increased to 17.7 percent compared with June and the average number of arrests thus far in August was 1,007 – far below the agency’s stated goals.

Daily removals during the last 14 days averaged 1,435 and thus were higher than the average number of daily arrests.

Once arrested, ICE reports it is releasing fewer from custody. The total number of people held in custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has increased to 59,380 detainees as of August 12, 2025, up from 56,945 two weeks earlier on July 27, 2025.

Individuals who were released but required to be electronically monitored stood at 182,617, down slightly from 182,799. However, the number required to wear ankle monitors has continued to creep up; 26,743 individuals were wearing ankle monitors, while the use of all other specific monitoring technologies declined.

ICE does not release a snapshot count of the number of individuals currently detained in each facility. Nor does the agency release the facility’s contractual capacity. As TRAC discussed in a previous report, this lack of reporting makes it impossible to see how incomplete the list of facilities actually is or how many beds are currently available to ICE. If the public had the number currently detained at each facility, summing up these numbers should add exactly to ICE’s national total for the number currently detained. And summing up the contractual capacity for each will inform the public just how many beds ICE still has available but are currently unused.

Other highlights from data updated in TRAC's Detention Quick Facts tool show that:

• Immigration and Customs Enforcement held 59,380 in ICE detention according to data current as of August 10, 2025.

• 41,822 out of 59,380—or 70.4%—held in ICE detention have no criminal conviction according to data current as of August 10, 2025. Many of those convicted committed only minor offenses, including traffic violations.*

• ICE relied on detention facilities in Texas to house the most people during FY 2025, according to data current as of August 4, 2025.

• ICE arrested 27,483 and CBP arrested 3,798 of the 31,281 people booked into detention by ICE during July 2025.

• Adams County Det Center in Natchez, Mississippi held the largest number of ICE detainees so far in FY 2025, averaging 2,169 per day (as of August 2025).

• ICE Alternatives to Detention (ATD) programs are currently monitoring 182,617 families and single individuals, according to data current as of August 9, 2025.

• San Francisco's area office has highest number in ICE's Alternatives to Detention (ATD) monitoring programs, according to data current as of August 9, 2025.

*Note: TRAC Reports has adjusted its definition of criminal history. Previously, anyone recorded by ICE as having “Pending Criminal Charges” was identified as having a criminal history. From this update and going forward, detainees with pending charges will not be considered as having a criminal record.

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