Overview
- Since Jan. 20, DHS reports more than 2 million people have left the U.S., including about 527,000 formal deportations and roughly 1.6 million voluntary departures.
- DHS officials say the administration is on pace to approach 600,000 deportations by the end of its first year back in office.
- A federal judge, Sara Ellis, ordered Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino to obtain a body camera and complete training after a video appeared to show tear gas use potentially violating a court order in Chicago.
- In Tennessee, Judge Waverly Crenshaw warned of possible sanctions over extrajudicial statements by senior officials in the case of Kilmar Ábrego García, who was wrongly deported earlier this year and later returned to the U.S.
- DHS also cites a dramatic shift in migration flows, claiming a 99.99% drop in crossings through Panama’s Darién Gap.