Overview

• ICE deported over 17,200 people in April, a 29% year-over-year increase that still falls short of the administration’s promise to remove millions.
• Senior aides Stephen Miller and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem directed agents to triple daily arrest targets to 3,000 in communities across the country.
• The administration has added 47 detention sites, issued contracts for 30,000 immigration credentials and reassigned FBI agents to enforcement duties.
• Authorities have expanded the 287(g) program and intensified arrests at court hearings and routine check-ins to accelerate removals.
• Advocates cite at least nine deaths in custody and multiple cases of mistaken deportations, including U.S. citizens, as evidence of humanitarian risks.