About ICE Detention Map

Donald Trump pretends that his mass deportation policy targets "murderers, human traffickers, gang members, and other criminals." But ICE's own data proves that he's lying. The vast majority of people detained by ICE have no criminal records.

The US government is required to publish weekly data on the population of individuals detained by ICE, including the facilities where they are being held. ICE quietly publishes this data on its website.

The data includes each immigration detention center along with its population breakdown, including whether individuals are considered "non-criminal" or "criminal", and their "ICE Threat Level". Many of the people locked up by ICE pose no threat at all, according to ICE data.

This website visualizes the public data provided directly by ICE. It automatically updates whenever ICE publishes new data.

ICE Detention Map is an open-source project of Lockdown Systems, a worker-owned collective. Donate to support our work.

This project was inspired by this Instagram Reel by journalist Gustavo Solis, who first highlighted this dataset and its importance.

In the News

August 20, 2025 | Straight Arrow News

Interactive 'ICE Detention Map' shows 71% of detainees have no criminal record, by Mikael Thalen

Of all the statistics in the spreadsheet, this may be the most telling: Of the 46,113 individuals detained by ICE, 71% have no criminal record. That finding was highlighted Friday at the Hackers on Planet Earth conference in Queens, New York, where the privacy organization Lockdown Systems unveiled a new tool that visualizes all of ICE's data on an interactive map of the country.