ICE arrests in Snohomish County are rising, UW data shows
EVERETT — Immigration arrests in Snohomish County increased significantly between 2024 and 2025, newly released data obtained by the University of Washington Center for Human Rights showed.
The data is not a complete picture of immigration arrests — the source of the information, known as I-213 forms, shows a majority of arrests, but not all of them. Yet it’s the most up-to-date data available on the number of immigration arrests in the Pacific Northwest, and the only source of data that can show arrest rates at the county level.
In Snohomish County, there were 17 immigration arrests in 2024, the data showed. In 2025, that grew to 59 arrests. That’s likely an undercount of the total number of people arrested, a researcher said.
While the increase in arrests was significant, Snohomish County was not affected by the uptick in immigration enforcement as much as some other areas. Some other counties in Washington saw much sharper upticks in immigration arrests. Skagit County, for example, jumped from 3 arrests in 2024 to 29 arrests in 2025. Benton County increased from 4 to 60, Whatcom County jumped from 10 to 136. Yakima County increased from 165 arrests in 2024 to 477 in 2025 — making it the county with the highest per-capita immigration arrest rate across Oregon and Washington last year.
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