{
 "updated": "2026-08-13",
 "figures_from": "ice",
 "figures": [
  {
   "metric": "people_taken",
   "label": "Taken by ICE since inauguration",
   "floor": true
  },
  {
   "metric": "detention_population_record",
   "label": "Held in the concentration camps at the January record",
   "floor": true
  },
  {
   "metric": "custody_deaths_trump_500_days",
   "label": "Died in ICE custody in the first 500 days",
   "floor": true
  },
  {
   "metric": "citizens_detained",
   "label": "US citizens held by immigration agents",
   "floor": true
  }
 ],
 "fact_checks": [
  {
   "claim": "ICE only targets criminals.",
   "verdict": "Contradicted by the data",
   "fact": "Of roughly 393,000 people taken since inauguration, fewer than 14 percent had violent criminal records, and more than 170 were US citizens, kicked, dragged and held for days, in ProPublica's documented cases. Navajo and Standing Rock Sioux tribal citizens have been detained with their tribal IDs refused.",
   "source": "ICE arrest data via CBS News; ProPublica; Navajo Nation Council",
   "as_of": "2026-01"
  },
  {
   "claim": "Nobody gets stopped for their skin colour.",
   "verdict": "The Supreme Court says otherwise",
   "fact": "In Noem v. Perdomo (September 2025) the Supreme Court allowed 'apparent ethnicity', speaking Spanish or accented English, type of work and location to count as grounds for an immigration stop. Skin colour is now, as a matter of law, a reason to be pulled over.",
   "source": "Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo; SCOTUSblog; KU Law analysis",
   "as_of": "2025-09"
  },
  {
   "claim": "Agents identify themselves and follow the rules.",
   "verdict": "No such rule exists",
   "fact": "No law requires ICE agents to identify themselves, display badge numbers, wear body cameras, or uncover their faces. Masked plainclothes agents in unmarked cars are standard practice, not a violation of it.",
   "source": "RepresentUs; Cornell LII",
   "as_of": "2026"
  },
  {
   "claim": "Detention is safe and humane.",
   "verdict": "Contradicted",
   "fact": "52 people died in ICE custody in the administration's first 500 days, the highest mortality rate in over a decade, more than doubled, with medical neglect documented case by case by Physicians for Human Rights.",
   "source": "Human Rights Watch, Dying in Detention (2026); PHR",
   "as_of": "2026-06-04"
  },
  {
   "claim": "This is normal immigration enforcement.",
   "verdict": "Missing context",
   "fact": "No prior administration ran a 70,000-person concentration camp population, a $75 billion enforcement budget larger than every other federal law-enforcement agency combined, or a doubled workforce trained in six weeks. The scale is the policy.",
   "source": "American Immigration Council; TRAC; NPR",
   "as_of": "2026-01"
  }
 ],
 "media": [],
 "related": [
  {
   "name": "The ICE List",
   "url": "https://theicelist.org/",
   "note": "The incident-level record: 900+ documented incidents, facilities, vehicles and agents, maintained with volunteers."
  },
  {
   "name": "Risks to US Democracy",
   "url": "/risks-to-us-democracy/",
   "note": "The wider authoritarian project this force belongs to."
  }
 ],
 "record_snapshot": {
  "from": "ice",
  "title": "The ICE List",
  "url": "https://theicelist.org/",
  "note": "The incident-level record behind this page: documented, volunteer-verified, updated continuously.",
  "metrics": [
   {
    "metric": "incidents_documented",
    "label": "Documented incidents"
   },
   {
    "metric": "deaths_documented",
    "label": "Deaths documented"
   },
   {
    "metric": "use_of_force_incidents",
    "label": "Use-of-force incidents"
   },
   {
    "metric": "sensitive_location_incidents",
    "label": "At sensitive locations"
   },
   {
    "metric": "detention_population_record",
    "label": "Held in the camps at the record"
   },
   {
    "metric": "officers",
    "label": "Agents after the hiring blitz"
   }
  ]
 },
 "tones": {
  "the-killings": "red",
  "the-personal-police": "ink",
  "where-they-are-sent": "ink",
  "historical-mirrors-the-black-and-tans-and-the-auxiliaries": "ink"
 },
 "skin": {
  "chapter_label": "File"
 },
 "charts": [
  {
   "after": "the-agency-trump-rebuilt",
   "type": "bars",
   "title": "The camps, average daily population",
   "points": [
    {
     "label": "FY2021",
     "value": 18315
    },
    {
     "label": "FY2026 average",
     "value": 65765
    },
    {
     "label": "January 2026 record",
     "value": 70766,
     "accent": true
    }
   ],
   "source": "ICE detention statistics; TRAC / Austin Kocher",
   "as_of": "2026-01"
  },
  {
   "after": "the-agency-trump-rebuilt",
   "type": "bars",
   "title": "Training, weeks per agent",
   "points": [
    {
     "label": "Before the surge",
     "value": 13
    },
    {
     "label": "After",
     "value": 6,
     "accent": true
    }
   ],
   "source": "NPR; Military.com",
   "as_of": "2026-01"
  },
  {
   "after": "the-violence-record",
   "type": "waffle",
   "filled": 14,
   "title": "Of ~393,000 taken, how many had violent criminal records",
   "legend": "14 of every 100. The other 86 did not.",
   "source": "ICE arrest data via CBS News",
   "as_of": "2026-01"
  }
 ]
}