Overview
- In a letter to Sen. Dick Durbin, DHS said ICE arrested 261 DACA beneficiaries between Jan. 1 and Nov. 19, 2025, and deported 86 of them.
- DHS reported that 241 of those arrested had criminal histories beyond civil immigration violations, without specifying the severity or types of offenses.
- Sens. Durbin, Alex Padilla and Mark Kelly called the arrests deeply troubling and questioned DHS’s criminality figures, requesting case-level evidence.
- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said ICE determined releasing individual case details would be an unwarranted invasion of privacy without the recipients’ consent.
- Roughly 516,000 people held active DACA status as of mid-2025, and the program remains legally contested with its long-term future unresolved.