ICE’s growing detention footprint, and the communities fighting back

23/03/2026 newslab

This map, created with overnment data provided by ICE in response to a FOIA request by the <a href="https://deportationdata.org/"target="_blank" >Deportation Data Project</a> and analyzed by NPR, shows book-ins at facilities across the country between Jan. 20 and mid-October 2025.

Resistance in both Democratic and Republican cities points to broader unease with the direction of immigration enforcement.

(Image credit: A map of the contiguous United States with differently sized orange squares showing the locations of places where people who were detained by ICE were held. A key describes the size of the squares showing book-ins between 500 and 20,000, for January 20, 2025 until mid-October 2025.)