A new report shows this year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, carried out the highest number of deportations in a decade.
ICE’s 2024 annual report shows the agency carried out more than 271,000 deportations this fiscal year, which spans October 2023 and this September. That number includes almost 50,000 family units and more than 400 unaccompanied children.
As CBS reports, it’s the highest fiscal-year total since 2014 — when the agency carried out some 360,000 deportations under then-president Barack Obama. And it also eclipses a Trump-era high of some 261,000 deportations in 2019.
This summer, a rule enacted by the Biden administration blocked most migrants apprehended between ports of entry from asking for asylum in the U.S. The law is currently under litigation from rights groups that argue it goes against U.S. immigration law.
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The Department of Homeland Security is asking for 20,000 National Guard troops to be deployed to assist with the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts. -
President Donald Trump issued an executive order ending birthright citizenship shortly after taking office. The case has been in court ever since — federal judges at every level before the high court have ruled the executive order is unconstitutional. -
To talk about another proposal to deal with immigration, another entrant into a congressional race and more, The Show sat down with Matthew Benson and Matt Grodsky. -
Business leaders expressed concern over the Trump administration’s immigration policies in a virtual forum with Sen. Ruben Gallego on Thursday. Gallego used the forum to discuss his own immigration reform plan. -
The report comes from eight aid groups working in Mexican cities along the U.S.-Mexico border — including two stationed along the Arizona-Sonora border. It includes open-source data from the U.S. and Mexico, along with testimony from aid groups and asylum seekers.
