Thanks to the joint work of the Department of Homeland Security (in English, DHS) and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a new record has been set in the detention of illegal immigrants, with more than 59,000 people currently in the custody of these two agencies, according to data released this Friday.
ICE is currently arresting approximately 930 illegal immigrants per day, while the number of daily deportations has reached 1,400 over the past two weeks. Among the detained migrants, 36% have criminal convictions, another 31% face pending charges, and the remaining 33% have immigration violations in their history.
In comparison, last December and January—the final weeks when Biden was in power—ICE arrests ranged from 215 to 300 per day, and daily deportations were between 500 and 700.
ICE agents | La Derecha Diario
Deporting one million illegal immigrants per year, the goal.
At this pace, ICE could deport more than half a million people in one year, which would far surpass the previous record for formal deportations set in 2012, before Barack Obama's administration made a radical shift in favor of illegal immigration.
Since the approval of the One Big Beautiful Bill, the White House's flagship fiscal package under Trump that injects tens of billions of dollars for the operation of ICE, immigration enforcement agents have managed to intensify their operations and raids.
Nevertheless, some government officials believe that the current figures for arrests and deportations are still below the initial goal of one million deportations per year that had been suggested.
Left-wing extremists protest against ICE. | La Derecha Diario
Trump's success at the border.
Part of this modest performance is due to the success of Trump-era policy at the border. Border Patrol detained only 4,600 people along the United States-Mexico border last month, quickly deporting 2,200 of them.
These numbers are a paradise compared to the border chaos experienced under Biden. In July 2024, for example, agents detained 56,000 people and sent 28,000 to be deported through expedited procedures.
In early June, when Trump ordered ICE to intervene in the Democratic stronghold of Los Angeles, daily arrests peaked at nearly 1,200. They then fell to about 850 per day in July, before rising again to more than 900 between July 26 and August 9. Since that date, deportations have steadily increased.
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