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An ICE spokesperson told The Denver Post that the agency had significantly increased immigration enforcement activities since Trump took office on Jan. 20, with help from other federal law enforcement and Defense Department partners.
ICE says it’s working toward publishing enforcement statistics on a monthly basis --- up from a quarterly basis now, which means the most recent data predates Trump’s return to office.
ICE did not respond to questions from The Post asking how many people had been detained or arrested in the Denver area since Jan. 20 and seeking other information --- including the reasoning behind the detainments, the detainees’ countries of origin, where the people were being detained and whether any had been deported yet.
Recent ICE activity in Colorado
Typical ICE activity has varied in recent years. From October 2020 through September, the Denver field office made 15,333 arrests, according to the agency's most recently published statistics.
Other cities recorded much higher rates of arrest activity during those four fiscal years, including Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Miami and Chicago.
The arrests in Denver's region broke down to nearly 3,000 in the 2024 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30; over 8,000 in the 2023 fiscal year; close to 3,000 in the 2022 fiscal year; and around 1,300 in the 2021 fiscal year.
The variance in the most recent three years meant an average weekly arrest total ranging from roughly 57 to 154 -- with either end of the range many times higher than the total arrests publicized by ICE Denver in recent weeks.
reporting that he was convicted of sexually assaulting a 4-year-old child and would remain in custody until his removal from the country.
In February, a 23-year-old man from Venezuela was arrested by ICE Denver after the agency posted on X that he was convicted of obstructing a firefighter in Douglas County and "is a suspected member of TdA."
Difficult for congressman, advocates to track
The Trump administration's limited disclosure of immigration enforcement activity so far has made it challenging for a Colorado congressman and immigrant advocacy groups, along with the media, to track its operations.
According to the latest ICE detention "accountability report" published on Feb. 3 by Rep. Jason Crow, a Democrat whose district includes Aurora, the city's privately operated ICE detention facility housed 1,116 detainees, including 1,040 men and 76 women. Seventeen detainees identified as transgender.
That week, 117 detainees entered the facility and 76 exited, according to the report. The most represented countries of origin in the facility included Mexico, Venezuela, India, Honduras and Turkey.
But Crow's office noted online that, "starting in February 2025, the Trump administration has informed us that they will no longer regularly provide updates on the Aurora Contract Detention Facility." Since then, no new reports have been published.