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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Two more ICE facilities in Arizona are keeping some detainees quarantined for possible measles exposure after a third facility reported multiple cases of the extremely contagious virus. -
Mexico will request criminal charges over 17 Mexicans who died in ICE custody or during immigration enforcement operations by the Trump administration, officials said Thursday. -
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says her government will “go further” than prior diplomatic notes and calls for investigations as the number of Mexican nationals killed by U.S. immigration officers or dying in custody increases. -
Surprise residents who were angry about the federal government turning a local warehouse into an immigration detention center can take a sigh of relief this week. -
ICE secured private office space, which did not require local approval. ICE told the city the purpose of the office is to expand enforcement efforts across the state, according to a statement from the city.
