ICE Arrests in Georgia

Monthly counts of ICE administrative arrests made in Georgia since October 2022, by gender, criminal history, how the arrest was made, and country of citizenship.

Source: Deportation Data Project — ICE arrests (ICE records released under FOIA in Hausman v. ICE, lightly processed by DDP)
Year coverage: 2022–2026
Updated: irregular
Version: 1.0.0
Schema hash: 732c950df426

Detail levels available

State · default

Overview

Count of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) administrative arrests made in Georgia, by calendar year and month, from the person-level arrest records ICE released under FOIA and the Deportation Data Project processed. Each arrest is counted once (DDP's duplicate flag applied) and broken out by ICE's gender determination, criminality at arrest (convicted, pending charges, or other immigration violator), how the arrest was made (at-large, custodial, 287(g) program, other), and country of citizenship. State-level only: the source has no county field.

Row grain: One row per year, month, county_fips, demographic, criminality, apprehension_method_group, citizenship_country.

Key metric

num_arrests — Number Arrests (count)

The single headline value most answers want.

JSON schema →Data contract (YAML) →

Variables

Every column in the fact table. The code is the exact field name the API returns.

Column	Type	Unit	Range	Null?	Description
`year`Year	integer	—	—	no	Calendar year of the arrest date (apprehension_date) — NOT the federal fiscal year. 2022 covers October–December only; 2026 runs through 2026-08-06. Full description▾ Calendar year of the arrest date (apprehension_date) — NOT the federal fiscal year. 2022 covers October–December only; 2026 runs through 2026-08-06.
`month`Month	string	—	—	no	'all' is the calendar-year total; '01'–'12' is the arrest month. Full description▾ Arrest month as a zero-padded '01'–'12', or 'all' for the calendar-year total. The twelve monthly rows sum exactly to the 'all' row. Pin to 'all' for annual figures. 13 allowed values▾ `all — total / aggregate` `01` `02` `03` `04` `05` `06` `07` `08` `09` `10` `11` `12`
`county_fips`County FIPS	string	—	—	yes	Always NULL: the ICE arrests source has no county field, so this dataset is published at state grain only. Kept for the immigration domain's shared key shape (FK to the counties dimension when populated). Full description▾ Always NULL: the ICE arrests source has no county field, so this dataset is published at state grain only. Kept for the immigration domain's shared key shape (FK to the counties dimension when populated). Joins counties; adds its label columns.
`demographic`Demographic	string	—	—	no	Gender as determined by ICE: all, female, or male. Full description▾ Demographic key (FK to the demographics dimension): 'all', 'female', or 'male'. Gender here is ICE's own determination, not self-reported. Arrests recorded with gender 'Unknown' count toward 'all' only, so female + male is at most 'all'. 3 allowed values▾ `all` `female` `male` Joins demographics; adds its label columns.
`criminality`Criminality	string	—	—	no	ICE's criminal-history classification at arrest; 'all' is the total. Full description▾ ICE's criminality classification at the time of arrest: 'convicted_criminal' (a criminal conviction on record), 'pending_criminal_charges', or 'other_immigration_violator' (no known conviction or pending charge). 'all' is the total; the three parts sum exactly to it. 4 allowed values▾ `all — total / aggregate` `convicted_criminal` `other_immigration_violator` `pending_criminal_charges`
`apprehension_method_group`Apprehension Method Group	string	—	—	no	How the arrest was made: at large, custodial (from a jail or prison), 287(g), or other. Full description▾ How the arrest was made, using the Deportation Data Project's four-way grouping of ICE's 28 apprehension-method codes: 'at_large_arrest' (in the community, e.g. fugitive operations and non-custodial arrests), 'custodial_arrest' (taken into ICE custody from a jail or prison, including the Criminal Alien Program), '287g_program' (arrests made under a 287(g) agreement with a local law-enforcement agency), or 'other'. 'all' is the total; the four parts sum exactly to it. 5 allowed values▾ `all — total / aggregate` `287g_program` `at_large_arrest` `custodial_arrest` `other`
`citizenship_country`Citizenship Country	string	—	—	no	Country of citizenship: the 22 most common among Georgia records, plus other and unknown. Full description▾ Country of citizenship as recorded by ICE, keyed to the 22 countries most frequent among Georgia records across the ICE and immigration-court sources; every other country is 'other' and an unrecorded country is 'unknown'. 'all' is the total; the parts sum exactly to it. Not a demographic — this column has no FK to the demographics dimension. 25 allowed values▾ `all — total / aggregate` `brazil` `china` `colombia` `cuba` `dominican_republic` `ecuador` `el_salvador` `guatemala` `haiti` `honduras` `india` `jamaica` `mauritania` `mexico` `nicaragua` `nigeria` `peru` `russia` `senegal` `south_korea` `venezuela` `vietnam` `other` `unknown`
`num_arrests`Number Arrests	integer	count	—	no	Number of ICE arrests in the cell. Full description▾ Number of ICE administrative arrests in Georgia in the cell, after DDP's duplicate flag is applied. Counts arrests, not people: a person arrested twice is two arrests. 0 means no arrest matched the cell (the state grid is complete; no suppression is applied).

Filters

Query parameters the fact endpoint accepts. Comma-separated values are OR within a parameter; multiple parameters AND together.

Parameter	Kind	Allowed values	Notes
`year`	year_exact	any value	—
`year_min`	year_range	any value	—
`year_max`	year_range	any value	—
`detail`	detail	`states`	enum-enforced, default: states
`county_fips`	foreign_key	any value	multi-value
`demographic`	foreign_key	`allfemalemale`	multi-value, enum-enforced
`month`	categorical	13 allowed values▾ `all` `01` `02` `03` `04` `05` `06` `07` `08` `09` `10` `11` `12`	multi-value, enum-enforced
`criminality`	categorical	`allconvicted_criminalother_immigration_violatorpending_criminal_charges`	multi-value, enum-enforced
`apprehension_method_group`	categorical	`all287g_programat_large_arrestcustodial_arrestother`	multi-value, enum-enforced
`citizenship_country`	categorical	25 allowed values▾ `all` `brazil` `china` `colombia` `cuba` `dominican_republic` `ecuador` `el_salvador` `guatemala` `haiti` `honduras` `india` `jamaica` `mauritania` `mexico` `nicaragua` `nigeria` `peru` `russia` `senegal` `south_korea` `venezuela` `vietnam` `other` `unknown`	multi-value, enum-enforced
`demographic_category`	dimension_attribute	12 allowed values▾ `aggregate` `disability` `economic_status` `esol` `foster_care` `gender` `grade` `homeless_status` `migrant_status` `military` `race` `sped`	multi-value, enum-enforced

Example requests

Run these against the base URL — they return live data.

All rows (first page), states level

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/immigration/ice_arrests"

states data for 2026

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/immigration/ice_arrests?year=2026"

Filtered to month = 01 for 2026

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/immigration/ice_arrests?year=2026&month=01"

Download 2026 as CSV

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/immigration/ice_arrests?year=2026&format=csv"

Notes & limitations

NULL handling

Zero is a real, reported value.

Limitations

Years are CALENDAR years of the arrest date (with a month column), not federal fiscal years. ICE and the Deportation Data Project report by fiscal year (October 1 to September 30), so a figure here will not match a published 'FY2026' number. Coverage is 2022-10-01 through 2026-08-06: calendar 2022 is October–December only and 2026 stops on 6 August, so both end years are partial and a trend line dips at each end for that reason alone. Georgia is defined by DDP's apprehension_state_filled_in field; of the 28,220 Georgia arrest rows, 1,398 carry no state in ICE's own field and are attributed to Georgia by DDP's inference from the event landmark. The ICE 'Atlanta' area of responsibility also covers North and South Carolina and is not used as the filter. Nationally, 40,845 deduplicated arrests carry no state in either field (2,018 of them made by the Atlanta area of responsibility) and are counted in no state's series, so the Georgia figures are a floor; that gap is proportionally largest before 2025. Arrests are deduplicated with DDP's duplicate_drop_row flag (ICE records some arrests more than once): 653 rows were dropped, leaving 27,567 arrests. The companion dataset ice_arrests_with_detention_stays is the same arrests joined to their detention outcome — use it for the share of arrests that led to detention, and this dataset for arrest counts. The source has no county field, so this dataset is STATE-ONLY: county_fips is NULL on every row and there is no county breakdown. State rows are a complete grid of every month × category combination, so a 0 means no arrest matched that cell (zero is real; no suppression is applied at state grain). month = 'all' is the calendar-year total; every categorical's 'all' value is its total, so filter each to 'all' except the one you are breaking out, or the same arrest is counted on several rows. demographic is ICE's own gender determination (male/female), not self-reported; arrests recorded with gender Unknown count toward 'all' only, so male + female is slightly below all. citizenship_country names the 22 countries most frequent among Georgia records across the ICE and immigration-court sources (about 96 percent of Georgia arrests); every other country is 'other' and an unrecorded country is 'unknown'. criminality and apprehension_method_group are ICE's own classifications at the time of arrest, as recoded by DDP.