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President Obama’s administrations relied heavily on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to carry out removals, producing more than over eight years with a fiscal-year peak in 2012 of roughl...
Available government and research sources show that removals (often reported as "deportations") under the Biden administration reached roughly 271,000–272,000 in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, and cumulative ...
Available sources show multiple ways of counting “deportations” under President Joe Biden: DHS/ICE dashboards and reporting cite annual removals like about 271,000–272,000 in FY2024 while analyses tha...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under the Trump administration has publicly claimed that roughly 1.6 million people "self‑deported" (part of a broader figure of 2 million people who have lef...
DHS and ICE statistics show large, but differently counted, numbers for people removed from the United States: ICE and DHS dashboards report roughly 330,000 “removals” (often called deportations) in f...
Recent reporting shows two sharply divergent narratives about who ICE is arresting: federal officials and DHS communications assert that a large majority of arrests target people with criminal convict...
Available reporting shows multiple, documented incidents in 2025 where federal immigration agents detained people later identified as U.S. citizens — including high-profile cases in Minneapolis and Ch...
Available reporting and government reviews show that ICE has in multiple past instances detained and—according to a 2021 Government Accountability Office (GAO) finding—deported U.S. citizens (GAO coun...
ICE arrests from Jan. 20 to mid-October 2025 show a large and growing share of people taken into custody who had no prior criminal convictions — studies and media analyses put that share anywhere from...
Across multiple government and think‑tank counts, the number depends on what is being counted: strict “removals” (formal deportation orders) totaled roughly the mid‑hundreds of thousands in Biden’s la...
Available sources do not provide a single, definitive tally of how many people "were allowed in" during Donald Trump’s first term; reporting and government releases instead focus on enforcement action...
Reports and government data show large increases in removals and enforcement in 2025, including DHS claims of more than 527,000 formal deportations and 2 million people removed or self‑deported as of ...
Deportations rose sharply in 2024 and remained high into 2025, with ICE reporting roughly 271,000 removals in FY2024 and multiple analysts estimating 2025 removals in the hundreds of thousands—Migrati...
Available reporting shows that a large and growing share of people arrested by ICE in 2025 had no criminal convictions — national analyses find roughly one-third to three-quarters of arrests involved ...
ICE booking and detention data show a large majority of people in ICE custody during late 2025 had no prior criminal conviction—multiple analyses put the share without convictions at roughly 70–74% (f...
ICE and DHS reporting and multiple news analyses show hundreds of thousands of removals in 2025, with a large share of those detained or deported lacking criminal convictions. For example, a Marshall ...
ICE reported 277,686 arrests for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, an average of about 310 arrests per day according to ICE-published figures cited by Newsweek . Independent trackers and news analyses show a mar...
Available sources report widely different counts and definitions for removals under President Trump’s second term: DHS statements claim as many as “more than 605,000” deportations and “more than 2.5 m...
The available reporting shows wide disagreement about how many people have been deported since President Trump returned to office: official Trump administration figures released by DHS/White House aff...
As of mid- to late‑2025, multiple independent trackers and news analyses find roughly 70–73% of people in ICE custody have no criminal convictions; TRAC reports 73.6% of 65,135 detainees had no convic...