While the Trump administration boasts about its high deportation numbers, it hasn’t been publishing comprehensive data, leaving researchers, reporters and the public little to go on but the administration’s words.
The Department of Homeland Security said it has deported 142,000 people as of April 30, a figure that includes removals from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Coast Guard, according to a White House official.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said last week that the fact that President Joe Biden’s ICE removal figures were higher — ICE reportedly deported around 11,000 people in Trump’s first month, falling short of the number of ICE deportations during that same time period in 2024 — was a sign that their predecessors were being deceptive.