Breaking: Trump Deportation Tally Stumbles at 37,660, Lagging Far Behind Biden’s Average!
Reuters reported that President Donald Trump deported 37,660 migrants during his first month in office. While this figure is significant, it is significantly lower than the monthly average seen in the last year of the Biden administration.
The Department of Homeland Security reported approximately 57,000 removals and returns during the final year of former President Joe Biden’s administration.
Notably, during his presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to deport millions of illegal immigrants as part of the largest deportation operation in American history.
However, preliminary data suggests that Trump may struggle to match higher deportation rates during the Biden administration’s final full year, when a large number of migrants were apprehended crossing illegally, making them easier to deport.
‘Artificially high’: Trump administration reacts
Meanwhile, a senior Trump administration official and experts predicted that deportations would increase in the coming months as Trump opens up new avenues for arresting and removing illegal migrants.
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin stated that Biden-era deportation numbers appeared “artificially high” due to increased levels of illegal immigration.
According to Reuters, the deportation effort could begin within a few months, aided by agreements from Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, and Costa Rica to accept deportees from other countries.
Deportation under Trump 2.0
According to Reuters, the US military has assisted in over a dozen military deportation flights to Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and India since Trump took office on January 20.
The Trump administration has also flown Venezuelan migrants to the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
Meanwhile, despite opposition from civil liberties groups, Trump announced in late January that his administration was preparing to detain up to 30,000 migrants there.
The Trump administration is also attempting to make it easier to arrest deportable migrants with no criminal records and to detain more people who have received final deportation orders.
Last month, the Justice Department issued a memo allowing ICE officers to arrest migrants in US immigration courts, reversing a Biden-era policy that restricted such arrests.
