Deportations surge amid Trump’s historic crackdown on illegal immigration
The Trump administration has already deported more than 332,000 illegal immigrants from the US as the feds ramp up their historic effort, the Department of Homeland Security told The Post.
Deportations were falling behind before the summer, but have started picking up.
Removal numbers jumped to 1,500 per day by August, nearing a pace not seen since President Obama, who earned the nickname “deporter in chief,” according to the New York Times.
A massive portion of the deportees were arrested within the US — compared to Obama and Biden when most were recent border crossers.
“Secretary Noem unleashed the U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) to target the worst of the worst—including gang members, murderers, pedophiles, terrorists, and rapists,” said a DHS spokesperson.
Now, ICE is on track to deport over 400,000 illegal immigrants by the end of President Trump’s first year in office, which will outpace the previous year ending in September when 271,000 people were deported, according to the New York Times.
Still, the current pace isn’t close to reaching the Trump administration’s goal of 1,000,000 deportations a year.
The feds ramped up deportations with the massive cash infusion of $76 billion ICE received from Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.
ICE is now equipped with roughly a dozen planes, which is nearly twice the number they chartered in January, to move detainees, according to the New York Times, citing data from Tom Cartwright, an advocate who tracks the flights.
ICE updated their contract with air charter company CSI Aviation to increase deportation flights while still utilizing military planes, according to the outlet.
DHS has also nabbed more than 359,000 illegal immigrants roaming the US. All the while, 1.6 million illegal immigrants left the US on their own, the agency said.
The Trump administration is also massively expanding ICE’s detention capacity with a goal being able to hold 100,000 illegal migrants at a time.
At least 11 new facilities have been erected to house detainees, with states, private contractors and ICE joining forces to add more than 18,000 new beds, according to a recent analysis by The Post.
Roughly 59,000 illegal immigrants are currently in ICE custody as it nears capacity, which stood at 62,000 in April, according to internal data obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).
