The number of migrants who claim ICE is detaining them unlawfully has increased nearly 10,000 percent in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term in what critics say is a damning rebuke to MAGA’s claims of going after the “worst of the worst.”
In January 2025, the monthly rate of “habeas corpus” applications for release from unjust or unexplained detention in immigration cases stood at 66. As of January 2026, that number had increased 9,932 percent to 6,621, according to an analysis of federal court data conducted by the Daily Beast. It shows petitions steadily increased throughout last summer before skyrocketing from September onward.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, along with other top Trump administration officials, has repeatedly cited an official policy of targeting violent criminals among the nation’s estimated 54 million migrants as justification for mandatory detentions without the possibility of appeal for release on bond.
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