President Trump’s deportation effort is on track to kick 600,000 illegal migrants out of the country in the first year of his sweeping nationwide crackdown, new data released to The Post says.
But the impact of the mass deportation push has been even larger — with more than 2 million illegal migrants leaving the US since January, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said.
ICE agents and other feds have also arrested more than 457,000 illegal immigrants, which officials pledge is “just the beginning” of things to come.
Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “jumpstarted an agency that was vilified and barred from doings its job for the last four years,” said DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin.
Federal agents have made “historic progress to carryout President Trump’s promise of arresting and deporting illegal aliens who have invaded our country,” she said — despite orders from federal judges blocking some enforcement actions.
DHS has deported more than 493,000 illegal aliens since the start of Trump’s second term, and 1.6 million more have voluntarily “self-deported.”
“Illegal aliens are hearing our message to leave now or face the consequence. Migrants are now even turning back before they reach our borders,” McLaughlin said.
That compares to just over 271,000 people removed from the US during the last year of the Biden administration — and 142,000 in 2023, according to ICE statistics.
The agency announced in September that it hasn’t released a single illegal border crosser into the country for four straight months, declaring “the era of open borders is over.”
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The surge in arrest and deportation activity in sanctuary cities like Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon has put targets on agents’ backs on all sides, from gang members and drug cartels to mobs of enraged rioters determined to thwart them from doing their jobs.
Assaults against ICE officers jumped 1,000% in 2025, including three ambush attacks in Texas in the last three months alone, most recently when a deranged 29-year-old Joshua Jahn sprayed bullets at an immigration facility in Dallas targeting ICE agents but instead killing two migrants on track for deportation.
Just this week in Chicago, rioters clashed with agents outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, and a group of officers was violently attacked by a mob who used their cars to box in the agents on Chicago’s South Side.
Chicago police were ordered by their chief of patrol to stand down and ignore agents’ pleas for help, which the department denies.
