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 rule — proposed this week — would require immigrants to submit biographic data like fingerprints and DNA when applying for a range of immigration benefits with Citizenship and Immigration Services. -
Trump administration foreign aid cuts are pinching Mexico’s already overburdened asylum process. That means long wait times for refugees who, barred from entering the United States, are turning to Mexico for safety. -
The self-described conservative group sued the Democratic governor for records to see if she ordered local law enforcement to not comply with federal immigration efforts. A press person said the records don't exist because she ordered DPS to comply with the law. -
Federal court data shows more than 2.3 million asylum applications are pending in the U.S. this year. But for Kamel Maklad, even winning protection didn't mean freedom. -
"Now We Are Here" follows 16 migrant families from Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, as their kids try to adjust to life in schools after their families arrive in the U.S.
