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DHS touts highest ICE deportations in history, as Mullin says agency has been ‘unleashed’

"Fiscal Year 2026 saw the highest number of ICE deportations and arrests for any year in ICE’s history," Secretary Markwayne Mullin, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated November 13, 2026, 2:54 AM UTC
Key points
  • MULLIN VOWS ‘ZERO CHANGE’ ON IMMIGRATION AFTER REPUBLICANS SUFFER CRUSHING MIDTERM LOSSES ICE also carried out 483,200 deportations this fiscal year, surpassing the previous agency record of 442,640 set the year before.
  • August 2026 also set a new record for arrests, with 50,925, marking the highest number for any single month in ICE history, Mullin said.
  • "I couldn’t be prouder of the brave men and women of ICE, who just broke more historic records," Mullin said.

Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, ICE has been unleashed to target and remove illegal aliens so that we can save American lives." Officials made more than 491,000 arrests, including nearly 475,000 administrative arrests, the highest administrative total in agency history.

Additional details
  • "The total number of ICE arrests in Fiscal Year 2026 was more than all three full fiscal years under Biden combined, as the patriots of ICE work around the clock to make America safe again.
  • Meanwhile, deportations this fiscal year nearly matched the combined total for all three full fiscal years under Biden, falling short by fewer than 3,000, according to the department.
  • Total arrests exceeded the combined figures for fiscal years 2022, 2023 and 2024 under the Biden administration by nearly 65,000, DHS said.
  • WHITE HOUSE DOUBLES DOWN AFTER TRUMP ANGERS BASE BY FLOATING ILLEGAL ALIEN DEAL WITH DEMS Specifically, this year's arrests were more than six times higher than those recorded during former President Joe Biden's first fiscal year in office.
  • Under Trump's leadership, more than 3 million migrants have left the U.S., DHS said.

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