Halfway through the first year of President Trump, American immigration and customs application, the agency leading its Repression of illegal immigrationis on the right track to record the most deportations since the Obama administration, according to internal government figures obtained by CBS News.
In the first six months of Mr. Trump’s second presidency, Ice recorded nearly 150,000 deportations – an average of more than 800 per day, which put the agency on a trajectory to make more than 300,000 moves during the first year of the president in office if the deportations continue at the same rate, indicates the data.
This would be the highest annual count since the 2014 fiscal year, when the Obama administration recorded 316,000 ice offsets, according to figures from historic agencies. Government exercise begins in October and ends at the end of September.
Created after the terrorist attacks of September 11, ice is accused of deporting immigrants who are illegally in the United States or whose legal status is revoked, in particular due to criminal offenses or allegations of immigration fraud. The highest level of expulsion reported by ice occurred during the 2012 fiscal year, when the agency recorded 410,000 moves.
Although this is a significant increase, more than 300,000 ice deportations in one year would still be far from the target of 1 million annual deportations that Trump administration officials have described, highlighting the operational and legal constraints on the application of immigration to which republican and democrats were confronted.
At the same time, it is possible that the efforts of expulsion of the ICE can develop considerably over the next six months, because the agency has just received a Unprecedented funding infusion Thanks to a big law on Big Beautiful Bill by Mr. Trump, including $ 45 billion to create more detention facilities and $ 30 billion to finance each stage of the expulsion process.
In a Exclusive interview with CBS News Last week, the acting director of the ice, Todd Lyons, said that the annual expulsion objective of 1 million could “certainly” be “possible” with the new funds, claiming that the agency planned to use the money to hire 10,000 agents and officers to locate and arrest those suspected of being in the country illegally.
Ice is not the only federal agency that exercises deportations.
In the first six months of Mr. Trump, customs and the protection of American border recorded more than 112,000 deportations, according to internal government data. These include the deportations of migrants that have crossed the South American border illegally, although illegal passages have dropped to levels that have not been seen since the 1960s in the repression of Mr. Trump’s government.
In addition, statistics show that the Ministry of Homeland Security has followed more than 13,000 self-carrying since the start of Mr. Trump’s second term. Its administration has aggressively pushed people in the country illegally to self-partner by creating a government application to facilitate the process, by offering them a $ 1,000 self-report bonus and warning them that they will be held, condemned to a fine or even in criminal prosecution if they refuse to voluntarily go.
Tricia McLaughlin, the spokesperson for the Top DHS, confirmed the expulsion of the ICE six months from the administration. She said that the administration had recorded more than 280,000 repatriations and self -events at all levels – not just those made by ice – since Trump took office.
Trump, who campaigned on the launch of the biggest mass deportation effort in the history of the United States, gave Ice a radical mandate. Its administration has reversed the limits of the Biden era on American interior immigration arrests, has enlisted other federal agencies and the military to help to freeze its expulsion objectives and considerably widened the categories of people eligible for expulsion, in particular by revoking the humanitarian protections of hundreds of thousands of migrants.
In recent weeks, ice has held record levels of prisoners in its sprawling detention system. Earlier this week, more than 57,000 detainees faced expulsion in police custody, according to data from the internal agency. Arrests on ice have almost doubled since the first 100 days of Mr. Trump, although they remain below the daily target of 3,000 Régis by Stephen Miller, one of the best advisers in the president’s white house.
While the ice regularly highlights the arrests of those of the United States illegally which have been found guilty of violent crimes, its application efforts have also led to the detention of asylum seekers who frequent the hearings of the immigration courts, workers in a variety of industries and other non-criminals suspected of being in the country without permission. These operations have been strongly denounced by Democratic legislators and triggered demonstrations in communities across the country, including in southern California.
A recent CBS News Survey have shown that Mr. Trump’s expulsion effort lost the majority support he once enjoyed among the public, with an increasing share of Americans expressing concerns about the immigration authorities that are not focusing on the arrest and the expulsion of dangerous criminals.
Lyon, the acting director of the ice, told CBS News that his agency continues to prioritize the “worst of the worst”, but he said that anyone found by his agents was illegally in the country will be placed in police custody and treated for expulsion.
“We have opened the entire opening of the immigration portfolio,” said Lyons.
