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Trump administration deportation methodology

The different methods used by the Trump administration to count deportations, including ICE removals and CBP returns.

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Jan 19, 2026
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How many immigrants were deported under Trump's second term DHS

The most defensible, reported totals vary by source but converge around a figure in the low six‑hundreds of thousands for formal deportations since the start of Donald Trump’s second term: DHS and mul...

Feb 6, 2026

How many immigrants entered the country under Trump's first term?

The short answer: there is no single, uncontested tally of “” during ’s first term because different datasets count different things; the best high-level summary from published compilations is that ne...