In the 14 months following President Trump’s inauguration, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 100,891 people in Texas.

The figures come from ICE data published by the Deportation Data Project. 

It covers January 20, 2025 through March 10, 2026.

TL;DR

• ICE made 443,788 arrests across all 50 states and DC in the first 14 months of the Trump administration.
• Texas alone accounted for nearly one in four of those arrests, with 100,891
• Five states produced roughly half of all ICE arrests nationally, while Vermont recorded just 50 over the entire period.

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NOTE: The data records arrests, not deportations, criminal convictions, or final removal orders. It measures how far ICE’s reach extended into each state during this period. In some states, that reach was vast. In others, it was barely visible.

Five states, Half the Arrests

Texas (100,891), Florida (39,462), California (35,618), Georgia (15,149), and New York State (14,079) together account for roughly 205,000 arrests. 

That is approximately 46% of the national total within the period. 

The gap at the very top is striking on its own terms. 

Florida, the second-highest state, recorded 39,462 arrests. 

That means the distance between first and second place (more than 61,000 arrests) is itself larger than Florida’s entire total.

California complicates the narrative

California ranked third nationally with 35,618 arrests, sitting well above Arizona (12,597), Illinois (7,492), and New Jersey (11,557).

California has some of the strongest sanctuary protections for undocumented immigrants of any state in the country. Its third-place ranking suggests that state-level sanctuary policy did not meaningfully limit federal enforcement operations on the ground during this period.

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Border Doesn’t Explain Everything

Texas and Arizona fit the expected pattern for border-state enforcement. But New Mexico does not. 

Despite sharing a border with Mexico and sitting geographically between two of the highest-arrest states on record, New Mexico recorded just 4,474 arrests. 

That is 96% below Texas and 65% below Arizona. 

Border location alone does not predict enforcement intensity.

ELI5

In the 14 months after Trump took office, ICE arrested nearly 444,000 people across the US. Texas had by far the most arrests, which is nearly one in every four arrests in the whole country. Five states together accounted for about half of all arrests, while some small states, like Vermont, had almost none. The data counts arrests, not people actually deported.

Source: 

ICE data published by the Deportation Data Project.