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National data, local stories: ICE detention in 2026 (great resource)
https://exclav.es/2026/02/08/exploring-ice-detention-facilities/On January 6, 2026, the US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency expanded “Operation Metro Surge” in Minneapolis into “the largest immigration enforcement operation ever carried out” by sending over 2,000 agents to Minnesota.
Though ICE is required by law to publish weekly detention statistics, after publishing data on January 7th, no data was released again until February 2nd. This data provides the first look at changes in ICE detention patterns since the scaled up operation in Minneapolis.
As I wrote on Bluesky, during January the largest increase in ICE detainees was at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, now the only facility where ICE detains minors. There is currently a measles outbreak at this detention center, operated by the for-profit private prison company CoreCivic.
To better understand this data, I made a data exploration tool for comparing the February release (actually data from January 22, 2026) to the January release (actually data from December 26, 2025). While most data below is directly from ICE, facility locations, facility type definitions, and facility operators are collected from other sources.
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