Deportations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will catch up to Trump-era levels in fiscal year 2024, just as the number of undocumented immigrants not in ICE custody surges to new highs.
ICE deported 271,484 illegal immigrants to 192 countries in fiscal year 2024, according to ICE’s annual report released Thursday. Of those, 32.7% had a criminal record, and 237 were known or suspected terrorists.
This is a significant increase from more than 142,000 people in fiscal 2023 and approximately 72,000 in fiscal 2022. In fiscal 2020, the last year of the Trump administration and coinciding with the coronavirus pandemic, approximately 185,000 people were deported, compared to approximately 72,000 in fiscal 2019. 267,000 people were deported.
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However, these numbers also include removals of people encountered at the border by Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which typically make up the majority of ICE deportations. Among ICE’s own inland apprehensions, only 47,000 illegal immigrants were deported, compared to 44,255 in the previous year and 28,204 in 2022. .
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This number is nearly double that of fiscal 2024, compared to 62,739 in fiscal 2020, the last full year of the Trump administration, and 85,958 in fiscal 2019.
ICE says it has had to shift staff and attention to the southern border to help with the immigration crisis, and that the increase in people being released inland has strained its resources.
“Additionally, ERO has committed significant personnel over the past several years to support DHS efforts to manage irregular migration at the Southwest border, further straining ERO’s finite resources. The book says.
As a result, the number of arrests through ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) will decrease in fiscal year 2024.
“In fiscal year 2024, ERO arrested 113,431 noncitizens. This was a 33.5% decrease from fiscal year 2023, when ERO made a total of 170,590 arrests,” the report states. “While changes in arrest numbers are driven by multiple complex factors, throughout fiscal year 2024, much of ERO’s resources were focused on processing and removing noncitizens at the southwest border, limiting domestic law enforcement operations at the border. The focus on cases influenced day-to-day domestic policing.
Both the number of ICE arrests and the number of deportations of people arrested by ICE are expected to increase under the incoming administration, and the incoming administration will eliminate restrictions placed on ICE during the Biden administration, creating a “historic” He has indicated his intention to launch a mass deportation campaign.
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In this undated photo, ICE agents arrest an illegal immigrant. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE))
This promise is a centerpiece of President Trump’s 2024 campaign, and his team is already taking concrete steps toward that goal. It has already drawn resistance from some Democrats, but it has also gained some support from others in cities overwhelmed by the massive influx of immigrants the country has seen since 2021.
The scope of that challenge is highlighted by an ICE report that shows the number of undocumented immigrants on ICE’s non-custodial records has surged to nearly 7.7 million under the Biden administration, more than double the number since Trump left office. It is shown that. At the end of 2020, there were 3.2 million people.
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The non-detention docket consists of undocumented immigrants in deportation proceedings who are not in ICE custody but may be in federal, state, or local custody or under surveillance. It is.
This includes undocumented immigrants who were caught and released at the border and are awaiting a trial date, as well as undocumented immigrants who have already had their cases heard and have been ordered deported by a Justice Department immigration judge. .
Fox previously reported that there are more than 1.4 million undocumented immigrants in the United States who have received final orders of removal. That means they were ordered deported but are still in the United States. The report found that there are more than 701,000 undocumented Venezuelan immigrants not in ICE custody. Records show only 1,470 people were in ICE custody.
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Meanwhile, despite a surge of more than 500,000 unaccompanied migrant children into the United States under the Biden administration, only 411 were removed in fiscal year 2024, up from 212 in fiscal year 2023. For comparison, more than 4,000 people were deported in fiscal year 2024. 20202.
Adam Shaw is a political reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.
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