In a clear violation of congressional mandate, ICE is excluding transgender population statistics from its public reports. Further, as of April, 2025, ICE replaced its description of people who self-identify as LGBTQIA+ and replaced it with: “[those] who may be susceptible to harm in the general population due in part to how others interpret or assume their sexual orientation, or sexual presentation or expression based on outward characteristics, behavior, or appearance.”

Withholding information and scrubbing diversity-related language and content enables ICE to continue to harm people with little accountability, and highlights the administration’s continuing disregard for the safety of transgender immigrants and the rule of law.

ICE is still legally obligated to report out on this data on a biweekly basis. Congress must hold ICE accountable to comply with its obligations for data transparency to the public.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)