350,000 deportations since january, according to the Trump administration

Since Donald Trump took office seven months ago, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has deported nearly 200,000 people, reports a senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official. This is the highest rate of deportations in the last decade. added to this are the 132,000 deportations carried out by the agency responsible for border security (CBP) and the Coast Guard, as well as theas well as the 17500 self-deportations recorded by CBP, bringing the total number of deportations under the Trump administration to 350,000. 

“In the face of a historic number of injunctions issued by activist judges, ICE, CBP and the U.S. Coast Guard have made historic progress in realize President Trump’s promise to stop and deport the illegal immigrants who have invaded our country,” the senior DHS official said via a statement. “Illegal immigrants are hearing our message: leave the country now or face the consequences,” he added.

The number of deportations per day is about twice as high as it was under the Biden administration: doubling the rate of 1,000 internal arrests to 2,000. However, this is still below the Trump administration’s target of 3,000 daily arrests — the number that the Trump administration says it needs to reach to accomplish its annual target of one million deportations.

The mass deportations Trump promised during his presidential campaign have proven difficult due to limited resources and personnel. Yet, the U.S. president signed a bill this summer that will allow ICE to become the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the federal government over the next four years.

The agency will receive nearly $75 billion by 2029, of which approximately $45 billion will be allocated to increasing the capacity of immigration detention centers. The remaining $30 billion will go to law enforcement and deportations, including strengthening ICE’s frontline operations.