President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to launch the largest deportation operation in American history once he takes office next year. But the Biden administration is already doing a sizable amount of work in its final year in office, as deportations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reached a 10-year high in fiscal year 2024, according to a new government report.
ICE expelled over 271,000 unauthorized immigrants during the period, surpassing the previous peak of 267,000 deportations recorded during the Trump administration in fiscal year 2019 (which runs from October to September). The last time ICE reported more deportations was in 2014 under the Obama administration, when 316,000 people were expelled from the country.
