The U.S. deported just over 442,000 people in the past fiscal year, ranging between October 2024 and September 2025, according to a new report.
Axios detailed that the figure was an increase of about 171,000 compared to the previous fiscal year. The website stated that the figure was included in a budget justification report. Also, the website noted that about 167,000 people who were deported had criminal records.
The figures for the federal fiscal year included the final months of the Biden administration and the first of the Trump administration.
The White House has stated that more than 605,000 people have been deported since Trump took office but did not include a timeframe for those figures.
The administration has also said that 1.9 million people have self-deported. Overall, it asserted that its immigration enforcement program has resulted in more than 2.5 million people with undocumented status leaving the country.
Axios reported that in the budget report, ICE included a goal to deport 1 million people. Although ICE asked for less money in the budget - a reduction of $751 million - it cited billions in funding it already was set to receive from the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) approved last year.
As NPR reported, the OBBB made ICE the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the country with $85 billion in funding. Ten years ago, the budget for ICE was $6 billion.
"With this new bill and other appropriations, it's larger than the annual budget of all other federal law enforcement agencies combined," Lauren-Brooke Eisen, senior director of the justice program at the Brennan Center for Justice, told NPR at the time of OBBB's passage.
The OBBB provides ICE with a supplemental budget of $75 billion it can spend over the next few years, NPR reported. Its base budget remained around $10 billion annually.
