The president’s administration donald trump maintains a clear objective on immigration: deport more than 600,000 immigrants before the end of 2025. Tom Homan, the border czar, announced the figure and stressed that they are “on track” to reach it.
Speaking at the Axios Future of Defense Summit, Immigration authorities count 548,000 expulsions until last Septemberadding operations from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) and the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
The figures are supported by a statement issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), on September 23, where it assured that they had already exceeded half a million deportations.
External analysts point out that This rate would mean around 1,886 deportations per day to reach around 688,553 deportations at the end of the year.if the current average is maintained, it requires Newsweek.
Curiously, Trump would not surpass Joe Biden’s deportations
During the presidency of Barack Obama, indicates the same medium, more than 5.3 million people in eight yearsa double mandate (2009-2017). Under Joe Biden, between January 2021 and November 2024, Approximately 4.6 million people were expelled.
In the current context, the goal of 600,000 deportations would not break the historical record, but it does represent a significant increase compared to the average daily figure.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, of the American Immigration Council, pointed out that in the case of the Trump administration many of the declared deportations could include pushbacks at ports of entry or self-expulsions.
Although Trump’s objective speaks of a more aggressive immigration policy in the first months, political analysts point out that this number will depend on multiple factors: detention capacity, repatriation agreements with other countries, transportation resources, and legal actions that can stop or limit the expulsion of certain groups.
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