Overview

• In April, ICE deported over 17,200 people—a 29% year-over-year increase—but that pace is still below the level needed to reach the administration’s removal goals.
• Senior advisers Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have directed ICE to ramp up interior arrests to 3,000 per day, a target that officials say remains unattainable.
• Since January, the administration has added 47 detention facilities and boosted deportation flights from eight-to-10 daily to 11-to-13 to support the enforcement surge.
• Resources have been shifted from the FBI and local law enforcement through expanded 287(g) partnerships to carry out immigration arrests at court hearings and routine check-ins.
• Reports of mistaken removals—including U.S. citizens—and at least nine deaths in custody have drawn criticism over the humanitarian and logistical risks of the aggressive deportation campaign.