President Donald Trump came into office promising the largest mass deportation in U.S history, targeting the more than 10 million unauthorized migrants living in the United States. Since then, data shows border crossings have plummeted, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests have doubled, and the number of people in detention is at an all-time high.
NBC News is tracking immigration enforcement with data from ICE and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. This page will be updated as new data is released.
While the Trump administration has promised mass deportations, the number of people deported by ICE has not been regularly released to the public. NBC News reported that ICE deported 11,000 migrants in February and just over 12,300 in the first four weeks of March.
Trump administration officials have said they will prioritize deporting criminals, but ICE data shows that roughly half of those who were deported in February did not have criminal records, and more than half of those currently in ICE detention have no criminal charges or convictions.
ICE told Congress last year that, as of July, it had identified 435,000 undocumented immigrants with criminal convictions in the United States who were not in custody. It is not clear how many of those criminal noncitizens have been arrested or deported.
Meanwhile, data from Customs and Border Protection shows that unauthorized crossings at the southern border have plummeted.
