Trump’s mass deportation effort removed staggering amount of migrants from US in first year of term: ‘Just the beginning’

Donald Trump’s deportation agenda is on pace to get rid of two million illegal migrants in 2025 and officials say it’s ‘just the beginning’.

Around 493,000 migrants have been deported since Trump took office in January, while another 1.6 million have self-deported.

Trump and Kristi Noem are responsible for having ‘jumpstarted an agency that was vilified and barred from doings its job for the last four years,’ spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said.

Another 457,000 illegal migrants have been arrested by ICE agents since January, as McLaughlin says law enforcement has made ‘meteoric progress to carryout President Trump’s promise of arresting and deporting illegal aliens who have invaded our country.’

‘Illegal aliens are hearing our message to leave now or face the consequence. Migrants are now even turning back before they reach our borders,’ she told The New York Post.

The final year of Biden’s presidency saw just 271,000 removed, which was an increase from 142,000 in 2023.  

On the other side of the border, federal agents have only apprehended 238,000 migrants trying to illegally get into America during the 2025 fiscal year, a 55-year low. 

That’s a shocking drop from the height of the border crisis under President Joe Biden, when in 2022, a record 2.2 million were taken in at the border, CBS News reports. 

Over 60 percent of the apprehensions at the Mexican border happened during Biden’s final three months in office. 

‘President Trump has overwhelmingly delivered on his promise to secure our Southern Border,’ said white house spokesperson Abigail Jackson. 

‘As a result, Americans are safer — unvetted criminal illegal aliens and dangerous drugs are no longer pouring over our border unchecked,’ Jackson added. 

‘And for all the Democrats who claimed it was impossible to secure the border or that they needed new policy, turns out all we needed was a new President.’

Officials surrounding the president have noted that the Trump administration has achieved its goals despite the courts getting in the way and the numbers come as the White House faces another legal battle over his efforts to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. 

Judge April Perry set a midnight Wednesday deadline for a response from the federal government and scheduled a Thursday hearing in the lawsuit filed Monday.

In the meantime, Perry has opted not to temporarily block the deployment, paving the way for Trump to send in as many as 200 Texas National Guard troops overnight.

According to The New York Times, the troops will be flown in via military aircraft and will begin operations on the ground no sooner than Wednesday. 

The lawsuit railing against the move alleges that ‘these advances in President Trump’s long-declared ”War” on Chicago and Illinois are unlawful and dangerous.’

‘The American people, regardless of where they reside, should not live under the threat of occupation by the United States military, particularly not simply because their city or state leadership has fallen out of a president’s favor,’ the lawsuit says.

Trump has argued that the troops are needed to help fight crime in Chicago and to ensure that federal agents can enforce immigration laws in the city, which limits cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

The president threatened Monday to use emergency powers against rebellion to deploy more troops into Democratic-led US cities, intensifying his rhetoric as his attempts to mobilize the military face legal challenges.

The Republican leader openly mulled use of the Insurrection Act after a federal judge in Oregon temporarily halted a National Guard deployment in Portland, while another judge in Illinois allowed a similar move to proceed for now in Chicago. 

Both cities have seen surges of federal agents as part of Trump’s mass deportation drive, prompting protests outside immigration processing facilities.

‘We have an Insurrection Act for a reason. If I had to enact it I would do that,’ Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

‘If people were being killed and courts were holding us up or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure I would do that.’

Illinois officials had filed a suit seeking to block the deployment in Chicago, but Judge Perry, an appointee of Trump’s Democratic predecessor Joe Biden, declined to issue an immediate temporary restraining order.

She scheduled a full hearing on the matter for Thursday and asked the government to inform the court to provide more information.