While the Trump administration has promised mass deportations, the number of people deported by ICE has not been regularly released to the public. NBC News reported that ICE deported 11,000 migrants in February and just over 12,300 in the first four weeks of March.
Trump administration officials have said they will prioritize deporting criminals, but ICE data shows that roughly half of those who were deported in February did not have criminal records, and more than half of those currently in ICE detention have no criminal charges or convictions.
ICE told Congress last year that, as of July, it had identified 435,000 undocumented immigrants with criminal convictions in the United States who were not in custody. It is not clear how many of those criminal noncitizens have been arrested or deported.
Meanwhile, data from Customs and Border Protection shows that unauthorized crossings at the southern border have plummeted.
