ICE Apprehensions and Deportations Data February 2026 Update
In September, 2025, we conducted an analysis of data from the Deportation Data Project to get a picture of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in Connecticut. Using this same dataset, we analyzed the currently available data, which now goes to October 2025. In this post, we take a fresh look at ICE apprehensions in Connecticut and compare Connecticut to other New England states.
A quick note about the data: The Deportation Data Project dataset includes ICE arrests and related activity in Connecticut through October 2025. More about this dataset and how we used it can be found at the end of this post.
What have apprehensions and detentions looked like over the past two years in Connecticut?
ICE apprehensions in Connecticut have continued to be higher than the previous years. In this table, you can see the months that are higher than the overall average, or lower than the overall average, over the period of August 2023 to October 2025.
The months with the highest arrests were in the summer of 2025 (which you can see as darker shades of green in the table), with ICE apprehensions declining afterward.
The average number of monthly apprehensions increased from 21 in 2024 to 63 in 2025 (through October).
Who was apprehended?
Criminal Background
Our analysis found that the greatest increase of arrests is among individuals without a criminal conviction that are facing a pending criminal charge.
In 2024, ICE apprehended 45 people with only a pending criminal charge, while in 2025 (through October), they apprehended 319 people with only a pending criminal charge. This is a 600% increase.
In 2024, ICE apprehended 117 people who were convicted of a crime, but in 2025, this number only increased to 160, a 37% increase.
Country of Citizenship
Countries of citizenship with the highest number of apprehensions over the past two years include:
Ecuador (184 people)
Guatemala (112 people)
Mexico (92 people)
Honduras (59 people)
Peru (57 people)
Brazil (54 people)
Where were people apprehended?
Of the 632 ICE apprehensions in 2025, 49% (312) occurred in Hartford.
The dataset identifies the location of the apprehension, not the town the individuals live in.
This high number may be due to the fact that the immigration court is in Hartford.
As was the case in our previous analysis, the number of people arrested in the community, as opposed to from a place of incarceration, increased dramatically from 2024 to 2025.
According to CT Public, a state law calle the Trust Act “put restrictions on the information that local and state police can share with federal immigration agents.” This may be why the number of apprehensions at places of incarceration is so low.
Comparing Apprehensions and Deportations to Other States
In New England, Massachusetts has seen the greatest increase in the number of both apprehensions and deportations. Connecticut had the next-highest number of apprehensions among states in New England. See the table below for details.
While the majority of people who are apprehended by ICE in New England did not have a criminal conviction, the share (or portion) of people apprehended by ICE with criminal convictions differs by state. The share of arrests of people convicted by a crime has decreased in every state in New England from 2024 to 2025 with the exception of Maine, which remained the same at 21%.
In 2024, 47% of those apprehended had been convicted of a crime, while in 2025, only 25% had been convicted of a crime.
The National Picture
Nationally, deportations decreased dramatically after 2020. Deportations in the US were higher in 2023 under President Biden than they were in 2025 under President Trump.
About the Data
The Deportation Data Project “collects and posts public, anonymized U.S. government immigration enforcement datasets.” They explain that they, “use the Freedom of Information Act to gather datasets directly from the government.”
The dataset includes data from September 2023 to July 2025. Therefore, 2024 statistics include the entire year, while 2023 and 2025 data only include the months available (2023 has September through December and 2025 has January through July).
In our analysis, we utilized just a few of their variables, including:
Arrests. These are arrests by ICE. They include arrests that result in a release, a detention, or a deportation.
Deportations. Removals of individuals who had been arrested were removed from the US.
Apprehension method
CAP Federal, State, or Local Incarceration are arrests made while the person was in criminal custody of a federal/state prison or a local jail.
Located and Non-Custodial Arrest are believed by the Deportation Data Project to represent arrests made in the community. To simplify this distinction, we have combined these two categories into a single “community arrests” category.
Apprehension criminality
Criminal conviction means an individual has at least one criminal conviction.
Pending criminal charge means an individual was charged with, but not convicted of a crime.
Only immigration violation (“other immigration violator” in the data) means the individual was arrested for an immigration violation, not potentially criminal activity.
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