Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported more than 142,000 people in 2023, less than 5% of the 3.2 million migrants encountered at US borders.
In its 2023 annual report released last week, ICE easily noted that its number of removals was double that of the previous year, but under President Joe Biden the agency is deporting far fewer people than under Donald Trump.
For example, in the immigration agency’s 2018 fiscal year, ICE expelled 265,000 people from the U.S., representing more than 30% of the 680,000 migrants encountered at the border that year, according to Customs and Border Protection figures. .
During Biden’s first year in office, CBP statistics show border encounters nearly tripled from 647,000 to 1.95 million.
That same year, Biden issued new guidance on how ICE should conduct immigration enforcement, resulting in just 59,000 deportations during the year, the lowest number of deportations in the past six years.
The latest figures from ICE show that its agents deported 142,580 immigrants to about 180 countries from the United States in the last fiscal year, including more than 44,000 from the interior and more than 98,000 from the border, according to the report.
ICE deported 142,000 people in 2023. Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Under President Joe Biden, ICE is deporting far fewer people than under President Donald Trump. Getty Images Some of the deported people had criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, ICE’s 2023 annual report shows. REUTERS During Biden’s first year in office, CBP statistics show border encounters nearly tripled from 647,000 to 1.95 million.
He also highlighted how ICE expelled more noncitizens in 2023 than in 2022, when the agency deported 72,000 people.
“Among those expelled, 108 were foreign fugitives wanted by their governments for crimes such as homicide, rape, kidnapping, drug trafficking, assault and sexual crimes,” the report states.
According to ICE, those deported also included 139 “known or suspected terrorists” and 3,406 “known or suspected gang members.”
Additionally, more than 60,000 noncitizens were expelled before May 12 of last year under the Title 42 public health order.
“ICE continues to disrupt transnational criminal organizations, eliminate threats to national and public safety, defend the integrity of U.S. immigration laws, and collaborate with colleagues across government and law enforcement in pursuing our mission to keep US communities safe,” said the ICE deputy director. Patrick J. Lechleitner said in a statement.
ICE is not the only branch of the Department of Homeland Security that deports people, and many of those initially detained by Border Patrol are removed from the country or sent back to their point of origin by CBP.
Complete figures on the number of people deported from the United States were not immediately available, but between October and May, DHS said it had deported more than 300,000 people, a figure that included those sent by ICE.
In addition to deporting people, ICE also monitors immigrants who are in the United States seeking asylum or on parole.
The 2023 report showed the true scale of that operation, revealing that at the end of the year the agency had 37,000 detainees awaiting removal from the United States, and that another 6.2 million people were not detained.
That number has nearly doubled since 2020, when ICE was handling 3.3 million total active cases.
During CBP’s 2023 fiscal year, which runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30, more than 3,201,000 encounters with migrants were reported along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. USA.
Nearly 2.5 million people were apprehended illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border that year (a record number), but the Department of Homeland Security also estimates that another 670,000 “fugitives” managed to evade authorities and cross the border. out of control.
The border crisis also shows no signs of slowing down: More than 276,000 asylum seekers expect to cross from Mexico in December, the highest number in a single month in history, according to preliminary data. obtained by Fox News.
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