President Donald Trump’s deportation initiative has led to the removal of more than two million illegal aliens from the United States since January, according to new data released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The report indicates that approximately 600,000 deportations are on track to be completed within the first year of the administration’s nationwide enforcement effort.
DHS officials stated that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies have arrested more than 457,000 illegal aliens so far in 2025.
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The department described the surge in arrests and removals as part of President Trump’s pledge to restore national security and enforce immigration law after years of limited federal action.
“Federal agents have made historic progress to carry out President Trump’s promise of arresting and deporting illegal aliens who have invaded our country,” DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
The media refuses to report this:
✅78% of Americans support deporting immigrants who are here illegally and have committed crimes
✅56% of Americans support deporting all immigrants who are here illegally
President Trump’s efforts to Make America Safe Again are very popular! https://t.co/ufHusBMBLf
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) October 7, 2025
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She credited the initiative to “jumpstarting an agency that was vilified and barred from doing its job for the last four years,” referring to the restrictions placed on immigration enforcement under the previous administration.
According to DHS data, roughly 493,000 individuals have been formally deported since the start of President Trump’s second term, while another 1.6 million have left voluntarily, a process the agency classifies as “self-deportation.”
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— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) October 6, 2025
McLaughlin said that the administration’s policy has sent a clear message to those entering the country illegally: “Illegal aliens are hearing our message to leave now or face the consequence. Migrants are now even turning back before they reach our borders.”
The figures represent a major shift from enforcement levels under Joe Biden.
ICE reported approximately 271,000 deportations during the final year of the Biden-Harris administration, and 142,000 in 2023.
DHS has also stated that for four consecutive months, no newly apprehended border crossers have been released into the United States — a milestone that officials called a sign that “the era of open borders is over.”
The intensified enforcement has focused heavily on major sanctuary jurisdictions including Los Angeles, Chicago, and Portland, Oregon, where federal agents have faced both physical and political resistance. DHS reported that assaults against ICE officers have increased by 1,000% in 2025.
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In recent months, agents have been targeted in multiple attacks, including three ambush incidents in Texas.
In one case, 29-year-old Joshua Jahn opened fire at an immigration facility in Dallas, killing two migrants awaiting deportation before being taken into custody.
Violent confrontations have also occurred in Chicago.
Earlier this week, rioters clashed with federal agents outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois.
The same night, agents operating on Chicago’s South Side were attacked by a mob that surrounded their vehicles and attempted to block their exit.
According to reports, Chicago police were instructed to “stand down” during the incident, though the department has denied issuing such an order.
PLAY THE TAPE.
STOP protecting criminals:
“They were requesting the police—we’re not sending.”
Not only did Chicago’s leaders refuse to send support to federal law enforcement officers in danger, now they’re lying about it.
Disgusting. pic.twitter.com/7hz1dZOv1B
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) October 7, 2025
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The confrontation remains under investigation.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has vowed that enforcement efforts will continue to expand throughout 2026, emphasizing coordination with federal, state, and local partners.
Officials said the department is preparing additional resources for major urban areas where illegal immigration and organized criminal activity remain concentrated.
Despite court challenges to several enforcement measures, DHS said it intends to continue executing the administration’s directives.
“This is just the beginning,” McLaughlin said, reaffirming the department’s commitment to prioritize deportations and border security.
The administration’s data marks the largest enforcement operation in decades and signals a significant shift in U.S. immigration policy under President Trump’s leadership.
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Play the tape if one exists. That would end the debate
It exists. It has been played. The debate is ended.
Nice…but that is a drop in the bucket! We still have at lease 25 million. That’s 25,000,000 resource suckers here that don’t belong here.
They’ve been saying “20 million” illegals since the Reagan days—even though at least 1-1.5 million illegals regularly enter each year. And that doesn’t count the wildly underestimated 10-15 million allowed in under Biden.
Want health care fixed? Housing crisis? Crime? Education? Jobs? Then at least the closer-to-accurate number of 60 million illegal aliens need to be deported.
Just in my little town with a population of 60,000 that is 85% non-white, at least 50% of the town is illegal. How do I know? By observing how eerily quiet the town gets when there is a “threat” of ICE being nearby:
—no fireworks going off near midnight,
—significantly reduce traffic (including the burnouts, loud exhausts, and engine revving),
—almost zero Mariachi music at all hours of the day,
—shopping is awkward (but pleasant) to see primarily white people or non-whites who obviously have jobs,
—significantly less sirens (mostly cops trying to do traffic stops, mostly sheriffs, since the city cops are reactive instead of proactive),
—and the local news actually reports useful information, instead of constant stories of gang violence, gibme/handout stories for the “disenfranchised,” or Communist-like bloc housing for the “low income” farmer workers, teachers, government employees, etc.
I’m tired of the “worst of the worst.” It was a nice PR tagline to try to keep the left off of Trump’s back—but we now see that it has failed. The left WANTS the worst of the worst, because they see law-abiding, hard-working, moralistic, and Christian-following people as the worst of the worst.
“How terrible it will be for those who call evil good and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness, who substitute what is bitter for what is sweet and what is sweet for what is bitter! How terrible it will be for those who are wise in their own opinion, and clever in their own reckoning!” Isaiah 5:20-21, International Standard Version
It will always be a work in progress, and on going battle.
If an illegal shoots and kills an American should he not be returned to his country of origin in a body bag?
Towing massa’s line as always. Hiring these minorities just makes their white bosses look like slave holders.
There are many illegals hiding right now in the south, being supported by citizens. When the heat is off they will continue their lives unabated. I know I live among them…….most are not criminals as defined by DHS, but they are illegal which is criminal in itself. I’ll be interested to see what happens when Homan declares there are no more criminal illegals in country.
In 8 years Obama deported over 3 million people. Trump is on about the same pace as obama.. it’s not enough,. They all need to go. every single person who broke the law to get here must GO.
I got a great idea…. Lets allow 40 million people into the USA and see what happens.. Europe isn’t Europe anymore thats what happens dummies.
Keep up the good work, All Americans are safer because of it, whether they like it or not.
The real number of illegals is closer to 50 million. And that’s not counting their children.
I don’t know why, but I don’t believe a WORD of it.
600,000 deportations in a year.
Now, let’s see…there’s about 50 million illegal invaders in the nation now. If we remove 600,000 a year, that means we’ll have all the illegal invaders out in about 85 years.
well lets see 2 million gone only 48 million to go. Extrapolated at say 2.5 million a year thats only 10 million leaving 40 million here when trump is out. FAIL!!!