ICE to arrest 10,000 people in red raids

• ICE will arrest 10,000 people in red raids, which will involve 2,000 arrests a day, according to AP.
• AP reports that in red raids ICE can arrest up to 39,000 people, while ICE does not publish data on arrests.
• The Independent, citing The New York Times, reports that the number of people ICE will arrest in the raids could be more than 10,000, up to 63,000.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will arrest 10,000 people in red raids, Associated Press reports, citing data, which it obtained from a Freedom of Information Act request. According to the report, the figure involves 2,000 arrests per day.

As AP writes, the raids will target people who ICE believes are in the country illegally. The raids will take place in cities across the United States. The report says the number of arrests is based on the number of people ICE has identified for deportation, but it is not clear how ICE selects them.

According to AP, the number of people ICE plans to arrest in the red raids is up to 39,000, which would be more than 30,000 people ICE has arrested for deportation in a single month. If ICE does not publish data on arrests, through which it determines the number of people, the report says, it is difficult to verify the figures.

AP material also notes that the average daily number of arrests is 1,283, and slightly less than 1,212. Meanwhile, the Deportation Data Project reports 1,057 per day; it adds that Freedom of Information Act requests for ICE data found that the number is even lower.

According to The Independent, citing the Deportation Data Project, the number of people ICE has deported in 2025 is 442,637, which is higher than the 30-year average. The Independent also says that the number of people ICE plans to deport is 1 million in total, which would mean that in the central ICE region in 2026 and 2027 financial years, there will be more than 99,000 people per day.

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