ICE Shatters Arrest and Deportation Records

ICE set records with over 491,000 arrests and 483,200 deportations in fiscal 2026. Arrests topped three Biden years combined.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made more arrests in one year under President Donald Trump than it did in three full fiscal years under Joe Biden. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Thursday that ICE made more than 491,000 immigration arrests and deported 483,200 people in fiscal 2026. Both figures set agency records.

Add up fiscal 2022, 2023 and 2024, and you get fewer than 427,000 arrests. ICE came up fewer than 3,000 short of Biden’s three-year deportation total of roughly 486,000. A year earlier, 442,640 deportations had been enough to set a record.

Two nights before the numbers came out, Laura Ingraham asked Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin if the administration was changing its immigration policy after the midterms. Mullin gave her a short answer, then explained whom ICE would go after first.

“Zero change. The president made that very clear. We’re still going after the worst of the worst and amnesty will never be on the table.”

Mullin told Ingraham that ICE had shifted i...