The latest data on immigration enforcement paints a revealing picture of the Trump administration’s crackdown.
Arrests are soaring, immigrant detention has skyrocketed nearly 70% since early 2025, the pace of deportations is intensifying and the death rate in detention reached its highest point since the pandemic.
Since President Donald Trump’s promise to lead the largest deportation operation in US history, CNN has been tracking key numbers. The charts below show what’s happening beyond the headlines, and how the immigration offensive has ebbed, flowed and often intensified on multiple fronts.
The data on this page will be updated as new information is released, so check back for changes.
The Trump administration claims immigration authorities’ arrests are focusing on major criminals it calls “the worst of the worst.” But the data reveals that most of those arrested don’t have criminal convictions on their records, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University (TRAC).
