ICE deported less than 5% of all migrants encountered in 2023 – far fewer than total sent back under Trump
NY Post
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported over 142,000 people in 2023 – less than 5% of all 3.2 million migrants encountered at US borders.
In its 2023 annual report released last week, ICE readily noted its number of expulsions was double those of the previous year, but under Joe Biden’s presidency the agency is deporting far fewer people than it did under Donald Trump.
For example, in the immigration agency’s 2018 financial year, ICE removed 265,000 individuals from the US, representing over 30% of the 680,000 migrants encountered at the border that year, according to Customs and Border Protection’s figures.
During the fist year Biden was in office, statistics from CBP show border encounters almost tripled from 647,000 to 1.95 million.
That same year Biden issued new guidelines about how ICE should carry out immigration enforcement, which resulted in just 59,000 removals for the year, the lowest number of deportations in the last six years.
ICE’s latest figures show its agents deported 142,580 immigrants to about 180 countries from the US in the last fiscal year, including more than 44,000 from the interior and more than 98,000 from the border, the report said.
