Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported nearly 200,000 people in the first seven months of President Donald Trump’s administration, according to a senior Homeland Security official, putting the federal agency on track for its highest rate of removals in at least a decade but still short of the administration’s stated deportation target.
The latest figure is a slice of the overall deportations that have occurred under Trump. The administration has recorded nearly 350,000 deportations since the president returned to office in January. The other deportations this year included repatriations by US Customs and Border Protection and the Coast Guard, as well as people who chose to self-deport.
Prior to Trump taking office, ICE had already recorded around 71,400 deportations between October 2024 through the end of December. Including those, ICE could surpass 300,000 deportations in fiscal year 2025, which ends September 30. The last time the agency recorded that many deportations was under President Barack Obama, when around 316,000 people were removed in fiscal year 2014.
{snip}
“In the face of a historic number of injunctions from activist judges, ICE, CBP, and the U.S. Coast Guard have made historic progress to carryout President Trump’s promise of arresting and deporting illegal aliens who have invaded our country,” the senior DHS official said in a statement. “Additionally, illegal aliens are hearing our message to leave now or face the consequence.”
Privately, however, senior Trump officials remain frustrated with the agency, which continues to lag in immigration arrests. While roughly double what they were under the Biden administration, interior arrests have fluctuated between 1,000 and 2,000 arrests a day, according to internal data, short of a White House goal of 3,000 arrests a day.
{snip}
The post ICE Has Deported Nearly 200K People Since Trump Returned to Office appeared first on American Renaissance.
American Renaissance
