Release lacks criminal-history breakdowns that previous administrations reported
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday that it arrested and deported more people in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 than at any time in the agency’s 23-year history.
The agency said it deported 483,200 people during the year, up 9% from its previous high of 442,640, set in the same period a year earlier.
The deportation total is up 78% from the 271,480 people removed in 2024, the last year of Joe Biden’s presidency, according to ICE.
On the arrest side, the agency said it made 474,850 arrests in the most recent 12-month period, roughly double the 239,890 arrests a year earlier and more than quadruple the 113,430 arrests recorded in 2024.
By month, ICE said it made more than 48,000 arrests in September, ending a two-month run of record monthly highs that reached 50,925 in August.
The annual figures are the first such precise counts ICE has released since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. The agency had not published comparable tallies during that period, including for 2025.
The figures do not provide breakdowns of how many of the people arrested had criminal histories, as previous administrations have reported.
“Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, ICE has been unleashed to target and remove illegal aliens so that we can save American lives,” said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.