ICE has now tallied more than 300,000 deportations for the fiscal year, marking the first time in more than a decade that the deportation agency has topped that milestone.
The fiscal year includes the last three and a half months of the Biden administration, but the vast majority of those deportations have happened under President Trump, who has roughly doubled the pace compared to his predecessor.
All told, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has formally removed 302,192 people as of the latest count on Sept. 6. The fiscal year began Oct. 1, 2024.
The last time ICE topped 300,000 was in 2014.
Last year, the final full fiscal year under President Biden, the tally was about 271,000, or an average of about 740 a day.
Under Mr. Trump, ICE is currently averaging 1,350 a day. If that continues, he’ll end the fiscal year at the end of this month in the ballpark of 335,000 deportations.
The all-time record is 2012, when President Obama oversaw nearly 410,000 deportations. If Mr. Trump maintains his current pace of removals for a whole year, he would shatter that, coming in at just shy of half a million.
The new data shows ICE is arresting about 920 people a day. That rate has held steady since late July.
It hit almost 1,200 a day back in early June, which coincides with the full-court press for immigration arrests in Los Angeles, before sinking back.
It puts the agency far shy of the one million arrest target some administration officials have hinted at.
ICE reported having 58,766 migrants in detention on Sept. 6, which is down from more than 61,000 in its last public data dating back to Aug. 23. That was an all-time record.
Of those in detention who were arrested by ICE, 35% had criminal convictions and another 30% had criminal charges pending. As recently as May, those figures were both over 40%, signaling that the administration has opened its aperture to snare more rank-and-file migrants who are in the country illegally and subject to deportation, though they lack criminal records.
In the latter part of the Biden era, more than 90% of ICE arrests in detention had criminal records.
