Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported more than 142,000 people in 2023 – less than 5% of all 3.2 million immigrants encountered at US borders.
In its 2023 annual report released last week, ICE conveniently said its deportations were double the previous year, but under Joe Biden’s presidency, the agency deported fewer people than under Donald Trump.
For example, in the immigration agency’s 2018 fiscal year, ICE removed 265,000 individuals from the US, representing more than 30% of the 680,000 immigrants encountered at the border that year, according to Customs and Border Protection figures.
During Biden’s first year in office, statistics from the CBP show border encounters nearly tripled from 647,000 to 1.95 million.
That same year Biden issued new guidelines on how ICE should perform immigration enforcement, which resulted in just 59,000 removals for the year, the lowest number of deportations in six years.
The latest ICE figures show its agents deported 142,580 immigrants to about 180 countries from the US last fiscal year, including more than 44,000 from the interior and more than 98,000 from the border, the report said.
ICE deports 142,000 people in 2023 . Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Under Joe Biden’s presidency, ICE deported fewer people than under Donald Trump. Getty Images Some of the people deported have criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, according to ICE’s 2023 annual report. REUTERS During Biden’s first year in office, statistics from CBP show border encounters nearly tripled from 647,000 to 1.95 million.
It also highlights how ICE removed more noncitizens in 2023 than in 2022, when 72,000 people were deported by the agency.
“Among those released, 108 were foreign fugitives wanted by their governments for crimes including murder, rape, kidnapping, drug trafficking, assault, and sex offenses,” the report said.
According to ICE, 139 “known or suspected terrorists” and 3,406 “known or suspected gang members” were also among those deported.
In addition, more than 60,000 non-citizens were deported before May 12 of last year under the Title 42 public health order.
“ICE continues to disrupt transnational criminal organizations, eliminate threats to national security and public safety, uphold the integrity of US immigration laws, and work with colleagues across government and law enforcement in pursuit of our mission to keep US communities safe,” 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 who are initially stopped by the border patrol are removed from the country or sent back to their place of origin by CBP.
Full figures for the number of people deported from the US were not immediately available, but between October and May, DHS said it deported more than 300,000 people, a total that includes those sent by ICE.
In addition to deporting people, ICE also monitors immigrants who are in the US seeking asylum or on parole.
The 2023 report showed the true scale of the operation, revealing at the end of the year the agency had 37,000 detainees waiting to be removed from the US, and another 6.2 million people not in custody.
That number has nearly doubled since 2020 when ICE handled 3.3 million active cases overall.
During the 2023 CBP fiscal year, which runs from October 1 to September 30, more than 3,201,000 encounters with immigrants were reported along the US-Mexico border, according to data from US Customs and Border Protection.
Nearly 2.5 million people were caught illegally crossing the Mexico-US border that year — a record-breaking number — but the Department of Homeland Security also estimated another 670,000 “fugitives” managed to evade authorities and cross the border unchecked.
The border crisis also shows no sign of slowing with more than 276,000 asylum seekers hoping to cross from Mexico in December, the highest number for a month in history, according to preliminary data. obtained by Fox News.
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