ALBANY — Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested more people in New York in the months of November, December and January than they did at any other time since 2022, a Times Union analysis of new federal apprehension data shows.
ICE apprehended about 1,400 people a month during that three-month span. While many arrests are not labeled with specific locations, the data shows numerous apprehensions took place at Federal Plaza Immigration Court in New York City, Erie County, a Canadian border crossing in Clinton County, Onondaga County and at the Wende Correctional Facility, a state prison near Buffalo.
The data, which is being made public as the result of a public records request by the Deportation Data Project, gives the most detailed look at ICE activity in New York in recent months. It comes as New York is debating a number of policy changes to respond to ICE enforcement in the state.
Murad Awawdeh, president and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition, said Wednesday that ICE activity in New York began increasing at the end of former President Joe Biden’s administration and has continued to escalate under President Donald J. Trump’s administration…