The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) completed about 980,000 deportations during the first 18 months of the second Trump term. This is at a pace higher than under the Biden and first Trump administrations, but still well below early-2000s levels. Among deportations of individuals with two or more years of U.S. residence, 71 percent (about 280,000) had no criminal conviction, a new Migration Policy Institute (MPI) analysis reveals.
On an annualized basis, the administration was on track to complete about 660,000 deportations in fiscal year (FY) 2026, up from an annualized count of 620,000 during the first year of the current Trump administration. That is 26 percent above the average for FY 2021–2024 but below the 1.86 million deportations recorded in FY 2000 and well short of the administration's goal of 1 million a year. (Deportations include both removals and returns.)
