For the first time in a decade, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has topped more than 300,000 deportations for the fiscal year.
The Washington Times reported on Friday that ICE had formally removed 302,192 people as of the latest count on Sept. 6. The fiscal year began Oct. 1, 2024, and ends Sept. 30.
News outlets, including CNN and Fox News Digital, reported in late August that ICE was on track to surpass 300,000 deportations in fiscal year 2025, which includes the last three-and-a-half months of the Biden administration.
ICE deported nearly 200,000 people in the first seven months of President Donald Trump’s administration, a Homeland Security spokesperson told Fox News Digital, and recently hit its highest number of removals in a decade.
ICE removed 271,484 illegal immigrants during the previous fiscal year. ICE hasn’t topped 300,000 removals since fiscal year 2014, when around 316,000 people were removed under President Barack Obama, per ICE data from FY 2014.
ICE removals peaked in fiscal year 2012 under Obama, who oversaw nearly 410,000 deportations, per ICE data.
But formal removals under ICE are just a slice of the deportation pie. According to senior Homeland Security officials, total deportations from all federal agencies have reached nearly 350,000 since Trump returned to office on Jan. 20, adding, “This is just the beginning.”
The other deportations this year included repatriations by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Coast Guard, as well as people who chose to self-deport, CNN reported. CBP, the agency responsible for border security, recorded more than 132,000 deportations this year.
Along with closing the border, Trump has roughly doubled the pace of deportations compared to his predecessor. If the current pace continues, ICE will end this fiscal year around 335,000 deportations.
It’s far shy of the one million arrests per year pushed by some administration officials, but ICE has been thwarted at every turn by violent protestors, activist judges and lawsuits.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security has reported ICE agents are facing a 1000% increase in assaults, including an incident on Friday in Chicago when an ICE agent was dragged many yards by a car after a criminal illegal alien resisted arrest.
“President Trump has been clear: if politicians will not put the safety of their citizens first, this administration will,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem shared on X. “I was on the ground in Chicago today to make clear we are not backing down.”
This week, a brave @ICEgov officer was dragged many yards by a car after a criminal illegal alien resisted arrest. His life was put at risk and he sustained serious injuries.
President Trump has been clear: if politicians will not put the safety of their citizens first, this… pic.twitter.com/2BSUg4a7U6
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) September 16, 2025
DHS also took aim at the news media in another social media post, adding: “If these “journalists” truly care about the safety of both law enforcement and illegal aliens, they should be exposing sanctuary politicians who encourage resistance to arrest—instead of demonizing our brave @ICEgov officers.”
If these “journalists” truly care about the safety of both law enforcement and illegal aliens, they should be exposing sanctuary politicians who encourage resistance to arrest—instead of demonizing our brave @ICEgov officers. pic.twitter.com/3CTiWL4PSO
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) September 16, 2025
The new data shows ICE is arresting about 920 people a day. That rate has held steady since late July, after averaging almost 1,200 a day back in early June, The Washington Times reported.
The 1,200-a-day peak came around the time ICE stepped up immigration arrests in Los Angeles, before shrinking back due to lawsuits that stopped ICE raids.
ICE reported having 58,766 migrants in detention on Sept. 6, down from more than 61,000 per public data released on Aug. 23.
Of those in detention arrested by ICE, 35% had criminal convictions and another 30% had criminal charges pending, The Washington Times reported.
Last year, the agency’s tally was about 271,000, or an average of about 740 a day, during the final full fiscal year under President Biden, The Washington Times reported.
Despite Biden’s figures, there were no protests in the streets or attacks on ICE agents. By all accounts, that indicates violent leftists, paid disruptors and the biased news media are fueling the riots and backlash.
“In the face of a historic number of injunctions from activist judges, ICE, CBP, and the U.S. Coast Guard have made historic progress to carryout President Trump’s promise of arresting and deporting illegal aliens who have invaded our country,” the senior DHS official said in a statement.
DHS regularly calls out slanted news reports and fake narratives on social media, pointing out “another garbage headline” by the failing New York Times on Tuesday regarding an illegal immigrant sent back to Russia.
The failing @nytimes with another garbage headline.
Artem Andreevich Vovchenko and Leonid Melekhin attempted to ILLEGALLY enter the United States. ALL of their claims were found to be meritless by a judge.
Under President Trump and @Sec_Noem, America’s borders are closed to… pic.twitter.com/GBAMXt4rl0
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) September 16, 2025
ICE posts updates on the illegal criminals being deported as well as encourages illegal immigrants to self-deport and leave on their own terms.
With the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, ICE has received an influx of money to expand immigration detention facilities and bolster enforcement and removal. The $30 billion investment will support front-line ICE operations that involve arresting immigrants and transporting them to detention centers.
At the end of the CNN report, the outlet is seeking employees of ICE, CBP and USCIS to submit their story in an apparent effort to tattle on the Trump administration.
