O Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported more than 142,000 people in 2023 – less than 5% of all migrants found at US borders.
In its 2023 annual report released last week, ICE promptly noted that its number of deportations was double the previous year, but under President Joe Biden the agency is deporting significantly fewer people than under Donald Trump.
For example, in the fiscal year 2018, the immigration agency ICE removed 265,000 people from the US, representing over 30% of the 680,000 migrants found at the border in that year.
During Biden’s first year in office, statistics from Customs and Border Protection show that border encounters nearly tripled, from 647,000 to 1.95 million.
During that same year, Biden issued new guidelines on how ICE should conduct immigration enforcement, resulting in only 59,000 removals in the year, the lowest number of deportations in the past six years.
The latest numbers from ICE show that its officials deported 142,580 immigrants to about 180 countries in the last fiscal year, including over 44,000 from the interior and over 98,000 from the border, the report said.
It also noted that ICE removed more non-citizens in 2023 than in 2022, driven by changes in migration patterns and the lifting of Title 42 and pandemic-era COVID-19 restrictions in May.
“Among those removed, 108 were foreign fugitives sought by their governments for crimes such as murder, rape, kidnapping, drug trafficking, assault, and sex crimes,” the report says.
According to ICE, 139 “known or suspected terrorists” and 3,406 “known or suspected gang members” were also among the deportees.
In addition, more than 60,000 non-citizens were expelled prior to May 12th of last year under the Title 42 public health order.
“ICE continues to dismantle transnational criminal organizations, remove threats to national and public security, uphold the integrity of US immigration laws, and collaborate with government and law enforcement colleagues in pursuing our mission to keep US communities safe,” said Acting ICE Director Patrick J. Lechleitner in a statement.
During fiscal year 2023, over 2.47 million encounters with migrants were reported along the US-Mexico border, according to data from the US Customs and Border Protection.
Almost 2.5 million individuals were detained crossing the US-Mexico border illegally in fiscal year 2023 – a record number – along with around 670,000 “got-aways” who eluded authorities.
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