Report: DHS Oversaw About 980,000 Deportations in First 18 Months of Trump’s Second Term
The Migration Policy Institute said about 980,000 deportations were carried out in the first 18 months of Donald Trump’s second term, and only 20% of those deported had criminal convictions.
A report published on Thursday by the Migration Policy Institute showed that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security oversaw about 980,000 deportations during the first 18 months of President Donald Trump’s second term.
The report indicated that only about 20 percent of the total deportations during that period involved individuals who had been convicted of crimes, while among immigrants who had lived in the United States for two years or more, about 71 percent of deportations were of people who had no criminal convictions.
The report was prepared by Marc Rosenblum, the former head of the Department’s Office of Immigration Statistics, and said that total annual deportations rose compared with the period of President Joe Biden’s administration and Trump’s first term, but remain far below the levels typically recorded in the early 2000s.
The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday that the Trump administration canceled more than 300,000 visas to enter the United States during his second term.
