Analysis: Trump deportations near 1M, but few are criminals

Photo: Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, not shown, observes repatriation flight operations and processing at the Alexandria Staging Facility at Alexandria International Airport in Alexandria, Louisiana, Oct. 2, 2026. (DHS photo by Tia Dufour). Attribution: “Repatriation Flights” by U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) via Flickr. United States Government Work. Article by Tim Henderson. Stateline – October 22, 2026.

The current Trump administration claims its mass deportation efforts have expelled nearly a million people through July of this year, but those include both voluntary returns and people turned around at the border, according to a new analysis by the former chief statistician for the Department of Homeland Security. The level of deportations is sharply higher than during the Biden and first Trump administrations but well below the level of the 2000s. Deportations peaked at about 1.9 million in fiscal year 2000 as border enforcement ramped up under a sweeping immigration enforcement law in 1996. […]

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