WPBN: According to newly released data, more than 271,000 migrants have been deported from the United States in 2024. This represents a meager nine percent of the 2.9 million migrants who have been encountered at the borders of the nation this year.
According to the annual report, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency experienced its highest number of deportations during the fiscal year 2024 since the Obama administration deported 316,000 undocumented migrants ten years earlier.
The Biden administration, on the other hand, was responsible for the largest increase in immigration in the history of the United States, surpassing even the Ellis Island era.
The acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Patrick Lechleitner, stated in the annual report that throughout the course of the year, the agency was asked to perform additional tasks without receiving adequate funding.
This was done while working within the constraints of limited resources and competing priorities, all the while providing unwavering support to the Department of Homeland Security and its component agencies in their efforts to secure the border.
ICE reports that almost 89,000 individuals who were deported in 2024 were subject to criminal charges or convictions. Of those individuals, those who were arrested for homicide accounted for fewer than one percent of the total arrests.
The most recent statistic, which represents a 90 percent increase from the total number of deportations in 2023, also surpasses the highest levels of deportations reported by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the Trump administration, which was 267,000 in 2019.
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ICE, which is responsible for arrests and deportations, only removed 47,732 migrants in 2024. This figure is far lower than the number that Trump apprehended in 2019, which was approximately 86,000 migrants who were apprehended within the country.
When compared to the total number of individuals who are attempting to cross the border illegally, the number of arrests made by the administration of Vice President Joe Biden is a smaller percentage than the number of arrests made by his predecessor.
Following the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, the United States began to experience a significant increase in the number of people entering the country. Customs and Border Protection officers reported nearly 2 million encounters during that year.
According to the data provided by the CBP, the number of encounters increased to more than 2.3 million in 2021, then to 3.3 million in 2022, and then decreased down to 2.3 million in 2023.
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This year, the overall number of encounters has increased to 2.9 million, with 2.1 million coming from the southern border. It is anticipated that hundreds of thousands of people will attempt to breach the border illegally in the goal of entering the United States of America prior to the beginning of the term of President-elect Donald Trump.
In light of the fact that the president-elect has pledged to restrict immigration and implement mass deportations for individuals who entered the United States illegally, it is possible that Trump’s administration will surpass the record set by Senator Biden.
The “border czar” of the incoming administration, Tom Homan, has recently stated that in order to carry out Trump’s proposal, he would want a minimum of 100,000 beds to be available in ICE detention centers for the purpose of holding undocumented immigrants.
