New data shows more than 271,000 immigrants were deported from the United States in 2024, just 9% of the 2.9 million people encountered at the border this year.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has deported the most people in fiscal year 2024 since the Obama administration deported 316,000 illegal immigrants a decade ago. According to the annual report.
But under the Biden administration, immigration also recorded the largest surge in U.S. history, surpassing even the Ellis Island era.
“Throughout the year, the agency worked within strained resources and competing priorities, and in the absence of commensurate funding, while steadfastly supporting the Department of Homeland Security and its component agencies in their efforts to secure our borders.” “We were asked to do more,” the deputy said. ICE Director Patrick Rechleitner said in the annual report.
According to ICE, about 89,000 people deported in 2024 will have criminal charges or convictions, and less than 1% of arrests will be for murder.
The latest numbers represent a 90% increase from 2023 deportations and also exceed the Trump administration-era high when ICE reported 267,000 deportations in 2019.
ICE, the arrest and deportation agency, deported just 47,732 immigrants in 2024, far more than in 2019, when President Trump arrested nearly 86,000 immigrants domestically. It's below.
Compared to the sheer number of people attempting to cross the border illegally, the Biden administration's arrests are also a smaller proportion than its predecessor.
The United States began experiencing a massive surge in migrants in 2021 after the height of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, with CBP officers reporting encountering nearly 2 million migrants that year. are.
The number of encounters jumped to more than 2.3 million in 2021, 3.3 million in 2022, and returned to 2.3 million in 2023, according to CBP data.
The total number of encounters this year has returned to 2.9 million, including 2.1 million from the southern border, with hundreds of thousands attempting to enter the United States illegally before President-elect Donald Trump's term begins. It is expected that
The Trump administration could see Biden's record eclipsed by the president-elect's pledge to crack down on immigration and introduce mass deportations of illegal immigrants.
Tom Homan, the incoming administration's “border czar,” recently said that Trump's plan requires a minimum of 100,000 beds to house illegal immigrants in ICE detention centers.
