Deportations Climb Under Trump but Fall Short of White House Target, a New Report Finds
The analysis says 69% of removals involved border encounters and only 20% of deportees had criminal convictions.
- A Migration Policy Institute report released Thursday shows the Trump administration completed about 660,000 deportations in fiscal year 2026, falling short of the President's one-million-a-year goal.
- Interior deportations have surged to about 19,000 monthly, though 69% of removals still involve border encounters, according to Department of Homeland Security data analyzed in the report.
- Despite official rhetoric targeting criminals, only 31% of those deported had criminal records, compared to the 44% average seen between 2009 and 2021; voluntary departures reached a record 170,000.
- Immigration courts face significant case backlogs while the complexity of deporting migrants from diverse countries limits effectiveness of the administration's $240 billion immigration agenda.
- The administration carried out 980,000 deportations in its first 18 months, which remains well below the 1.86 million removals recorded in 2000 under President Bill Clinton.
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Trump deportations near 1 million, but few are criminals, analysis finds
The Trump administration claims to have expelled nearly a million people through July of this year, but those include voluntary returns and people turned around at the border, according to a new analysis by Homeland Security's former chief statistician.
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During the first year and a half after Donald Trump returned to power, 980,000 people were deported from the United States. That's far fewer than Trump's campaign promise.
The United States deported some 980,000 migrants within 18 months of the Second State of Trump, amid legal and logistical obstacles, and heightened fears that the targeting of migrants - particularly Indians - might weaken the technology and medical sectors.
According to the report, only 20% of the overall total of 980,000 deportations (190,000 people) affected those convicted of some crime, contradicting Trump's narrative of expelling "the worst of the worst."
Donald Trump's government has deported some 980,000 people since the beginning of his second term, according to a report by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) documenting the consequences of his hard-handed policy against immigration, at a time when the Department of National Security (DHS) does not publish official figures. The analysis ... Continues reading "Report details that Trump's government has deported about 1 million people in almost…
Donald Trump's government has deported some 980 thousand people since the beginning of his second term.
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