The National Security Department (DHS) states that in almost nine months of the government of President Donald Trump, two million immigrants have been deported or have left the United States.
The DHS figures indicate that the operations of the Customs Immigration and Control Agency (ICE) has deported 400,000 undocumented immigrants, while 1.6 million people have decided to leave the country voluntarily.
On Tuesday, the Department of National Security (DHS) announced that 2 million undocumented immigrants have been expelled or self -employed since January 20.
“The figures do not lie: two million undocumented immigrants have been expelled or have been self -employed in just 250 days, demonstrating that President Trump’s policies and the leadership of the Secretary Noem are working and guaranteeing the security of US communities,” said DHS Undersecretary, Tricia Mclaughl. “The increase in immigration control measures aimed at the worst of the worst is expelling more illegal immigrants from our streets every day and sending a clear message to those who are in this country without documents: self -demortable or we will arrest and deport them.”
Although it is an official figure, it is difficult to confirm the data, due to the lack of breakdown in the information.
“No, I don’t believe in the total figure of the two million,” Ernesto Castañeda, director of the Center for Latin American and Latin Studies and the American University Immigration Lab They were self -supported, but the so -called self -portations are impossible to measure. ”
The expert criticized that the figures launched by the DHS, which qualifies as “unreal.”
“Ads like these are talking about trends and deportation goals are part of a real problem because they talk about human beings as if they were only things or figures,” he criticized. “It should be impossible to make predictions on deportations, because they should depend on the number of arrivals without permission to the border and criminals who have fulfilled their sentence and whose countries of origin are willing to receive them. It is unreal, cruel and inhuman talking about quotas, fees and goals as it is about talking about separating mixed families and deporting people who are established and integrated into the US society.”
Statistics problems
With their McLaughlin report it assumes that all the people indicated that they have left the US or have been deported are “the worst of the worst”, but analysis of the arrests reported by ICE, made by Cato Institute and other organizations, confirm that about 70% of the detainee immigrants do not have a criminal history.
Castañeda emphasized the way in which the data is reported and although it considered that thousands of people are thinking of leaving the US before migratory harassment, it is not possible to estimate a specific figure.
“Many people could already have to return to their countries in any way, others with papers could have come out temporarily, but they could return in the future,” he said. “Few people are using CBPONE for repatriations. The incentive of $ 1,000 dollars is not enough. Some groups are helping just use the app as part of their administrative aid, but this program is not something attractive for someone with years living in the US and relatives here.”
The DHS launched a page on its portal entitled “The worst of the worst”, where it reports people with detained criminal history. In your report, to date, there are only 12 articles that exhibit arrests. There are no statistics with breakdown about the arrested people, where they are and what crimes they committed.
ICE official statistics have not been updated. The 2025 fiscal year, which ends on September 30, has significant delays in terms of information. The agency reports 26,606, not the 400,000 detainees and deportees in the country.
The DHS, acknowledges that the deportation plan will have a reimpulso with the “One Big Beautiful” law, which seeks to hire about 10,000 ICE agents.
Agreements 287 (G) have also been extended, so that local and state police cooperate with the immigration agency. There are more than 1,000 agreements in 40 states. 70% of these were made during the current government, confirmed this newspaper based on official information.
Castañeda also indicated that although immigrants’ arrests could be increasing, the government does not assume responsibility for the negative conditions in which it keeps these people retained.
“The arrests of people have risen, but that is nothing to celebrate when detention conditions are frequently bad,” he said. “These centers are not prisons for criminals but for people in the process of deportation or readmission to the community, but the conditions are sometimes worse than in prisons for violent criminals.”
Less arrivals in the US
The DHS report, revealed last Tuesday, even quotes a United Nations report, which indicates that President Trump’s immigration policies “led to a 97% reduction in the number of illegal immigrants who are directed to the north of the United States from Central America.”
“That same study revealed that 49% of the possible illegal immigrants who decided to stop their trip to the United States because they thought it would be impossible to enter the country under the mandate of President Trump,” the DHS quotes. “Likewise, 46% said that fear of detention or deportation led them to abandon their attempt to illegally enter the US.”