Trump Immigrant Removals Now 10 Percent Below Biden’s Record
>The results are actually quite shocking. Despite deploying staff from other agencies to assist in enforcement activities and ordering active-duty military to facilitate removals at the border, daily removals have failed to reach even the levels achieved by the previous administration. Indeed, President Trump’s removal record is growing worse with time rather than improving.
As we noted in our initial report, Trump’s daily removals during the period of January 26-February 8 averaged just
693. This is 6.5 percent below the higher daily average of
742 under former President Biden. Now with an additional four weeks (28 days) added to the monitoring period, Trump’s daily removals for the period January 26 through March 8 averaged only
661 removals each day. This number is not only below its initial removal rate, but 10.9 percentage points lower than Biden’s daily average of
742 .
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Trump Immigrant Removals Now 10 Percent Below Biden’s Record
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His [Trump's] measures built on some initiatives already under way by the end of Democratic President Joe Biden's tenure, including a
similar asylum ban and a push to
increase Mexican enforcement.
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The February arrest total was a steep drop from the 141,000 migrants picked up in February 2024 before Trump returned to office and down from 29,000 in January, according to U.S. government figures.
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Still, ICE has
cast a wider net than during Biden's presidency, picking up more non-criminals and people with final deportation orders, including those who come to ICE offices for routine check-ins.
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The Trump administration has struggled to increase deportation levels even as it has opened up new pathways to send migrants of other nationalities to Mexico and Central America.
Trump deported 37,660 people during his first month in office,
Reuters reported in February, far fewer than the monthly average of 57,000 removals and returns in the last full year of Biden's administration.
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Trump has said he is weighing a similar move to strip the status from Ukrainians.
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Trump’s Ineffective Use of ICE Detainers: Numbers Jump but Few Produce Results
Detainers Jump While Individuals Taken into Custody Plummet
>So far in the current administration, ICE case-by-case detainer data indicate that ICE has taken the individual sought into custody relatively infrequently. In fact, ICE records that only 14 percent were taken into custody after the issuance of a detainer.
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In addition, while news reports often feature deportations that have taken place shortly after an individual is in custody, ICE recorded that only 1.6 percent of the detainers ICE has issued have thus far resulted in actual deportations.
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Most Targets of Detainers Had No Criminal Convictions
>In general, individuals with a criminal conviction made up a surprisingly small number of those targeted by a detainer. Out of 17,972 detainers issued between January 20 and February 17, just 28 percent had any prior conviction. Of these, despite this administration’s rhetoric, only 30 detainers were targeted at convicted rapists and just 65 at murderers.
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Trump’s Ineffective Use of ICE Detainers: Numbers Jump but Few Produce Results
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