ICE stops publishing congressionally mandated data on transgender detainees

Data/communicationsICE

Date
Actor
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Agency
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Type
Data/communications
Section
PRISONS, DETENTION, AND IMMIGRATION (BOP, DHS/ICE, EOIR, ASYLUM)

Summary

Beginning with the February 4, 2025 edition of its biweekly detention statistics report, ICE omitted the section reporting book-ins and custody counts of transgender detainees — data Congress has required ICE to publish biweekly since FY2021 appropriations. The last report containing the data was published January 17, 2025 (47 transgender people then in custody; at least 700 book-ins since October 2020). The omission eliminates the only public measure of how many transgender people ICE detains and where, foreclosing oversight of the housing and care changes below. (See section 12.)

Status

Ongoing; data still not reported. ICE has declined to answer press inquiries about compliance with the reporting requirement.

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