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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Democratic Reps. Greg Stanton, Yassamin Ansari and Adelita Grijalva say they were shocked by the conditions inside the ICE holding facility at Mesa Gateway Airport on Thursday evening. -
As the New York Times reports, more than 100 of the roughly 750 immigration judges have been dismissed. About 140 permanent and temporary judges have been appointed in the wake of those firings — including former DHS prosecutors. -
DHS is now planning something more modest, starting out with 250 people per week and capping occupied beds at 542, according to Surprise Mayor Kevin Sartor. -
A spokeswoman for U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, a Democrat from Arizona, said that Kelly had called DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin regarding Annie Ramos’ detention. Her husband has family in Arizona. -
GOP lawmakers are asking the attorney general to punish Pima County over a resolution banning ICE activity on county property without judicial warrants.
