Immigration officials said Thursday that arrests and deportations in fiscal year 2026 reached record levels. ICE made more arrests than during the Biden administration’s final three fiscal years combined, while deportations came close to matching that three-year total.
“Fiscal Year 2026 saw the highest number of ICE deportations and arrests for any year in ICE’s history,” said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
ICE recorded more than 491,000 arrests, including nearly 475,000 administrative arrests, which officials said was a record. The department said the arrest total was almost 65,000 higher than the combined figures for fiscal years 2022, 2023 and 2024.
The agency also carried out 483,200 deportations, topping its previous record of 442,640, set the year before. That figure was fewer than 3,000 short of the combined deportations during Biden’s final three full fiscal years, according to DHS.
Arrests this year were more than six times the total recorded in Biden’s first fiscal year, while deportations were more than eight times higher, the department said.
ICE made 50,925 arrests in August 2026, setting a new monthly record, Mullin said. More than 48,000 arrests followed in September, a rise of over 300% compared with the average September total under the previous administration.
DHS said more than 3 million migrants have left the United States under President Trump. By October, the administration had deported nearly 1.2 million people it described as illegal aliens and arrested more than 1.25 million.
“I couldn’t be prouder of the brave men and women of ICE, who just broke more historic records,” Mullin said.
