Is this weird? ICE's Press Page Goes Quiet, No New Detention Data
ICE's press page has been silent for a week, unusual for an agency that typically posts daily. Latest detention data is also delayed. What's going on?
Immigration and Customs Enforcement usually publishes press releases almost daily, sometimes multiple times a day. The agency uses these announcements to highlight arrests of people with serious criminal records, even though such cases represent a small fraction of overall enforcement. The press section is also where ICE is legally required to post notifications about deaths in detention.
Typically, the press page stays active, rarely going more than a day or two without updates. Yet there hasn’t been a single press release since January 20, a week ago.
It’s hard to know whether this silence is connected to the reported turmoil within the administration over how ICE and DHS are handling enforcement operations, or to the growing criticism following two recent shootings of U.S. citizens during immigration operations. The justification for these shootings remains contested, with many outlets and observers describing them as unjustified. Whether the administration is recalibrating its public messaging in response to blowback, including from within Trump’s own party, remains unclear.
Possibly related, possibly not: ICE should have released its latest detention data last Thursday or Friday. As of Tuesday late morning, the agency still hasn't posted the update. The data is now several days behind schedule. While delays occasionally happen, ICE has been remarkably punctual with data releases over the past two years, including during the current Trump administration. This delay stands out, but isn’t what I would flag as an emergency-level delay yet.
Without the latest data, we can’t verify current detention numbers or track how much the system has grown over the past two weeks. CBS News reported that ICE’s detained population has reached record highs around 73,000 people, but without official data, we can’t confirm these figures or understand the details behind them.
For those wondering if you somehow missed the latest ICE detention numbers: you didn’t. They haven’t released them yet. And the press page has been unusually quiet. What these things add up to isn’t yet clear, but the silence itself is notable.
Mass resignation by the minions responsible for collecting and putting the information online?
When things go quiet, it simply means they are regrouping. Deciding their next move. They aren't backing down. We've been inundating our Congress to Vote No on their funding and worried that's going happen. So all the sudden they get rid of cold, a new Border czar, Tom Homan, takes his place. Worse than the first. He does his murdering in the dark, not broad daylight. He's called and made nice with the Mayor and the Chief of Police and the Governor. They called their meeting with Homan productive...All this pretense because they want that 30 billion dollars. Once they have it. All bets are off. The vote is this week. Be sure our Senators know exactly what we want. ICE disbanded. Gone. Dems will find a way to get around it. Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries take more money from AIPAC and other Zionist Jewish Israel PACS and Lobby's than nearly anyone. Israel's IDF trains ICE and our police forces in larger cities. AIPAC funds ICE along with Zionist Jewish American Oligarchs Larry Ellison and Miriam Adelson. Who both contribute 100's of millions of dollars a piece to AIPAC and Trump.