ICE says over 350,000 individuals removed so far in fiscal year 2026
U.S. immigration authorities removed more than 350,000 individuals so far in fiscal year 2026, according to statistics posted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), potentially putting the agency on track to break a record set by the Obama administration.
The total number of deportations so far this fiscal year is 356,389, according to the numbers posted by ICE.
ICE currently has 65,765 individuals in detention facilities, 60% of whom have a criminal record, according to the agency.
There are still two and a half months to go in the current fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30.
According to the ICE data, June has seen the highest number of arrests with just over 43,000 between ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). That is 1,438 arrests per day on average in the month of June.
Sources have told ABC News that the Trump administration is looking to make 2,000 arrests per day.
The data on number of removals come as ICE is under scrutiny for two shootings carried out by the agency in which two people died.
The shootings occurred in Maine and Texas, and ICE has acknowledged the men that were killed were not the target of the operations, but were in the country illegally.
Mike Howell, who serves as the president of the Trump-aligned Oversight Project and is part of a group suing for the raw number of deportations carried out, said removals this year are on track to be larger than the record set by the Obama administration -- but said the Trump administration needs to do more to meet its mass deportation goals.
The Obama administration deported 438,421 in fiscal year 2013.
"The numbers are only larger than Obama in absolute terms but smaller when you take into account the proportion of total illegal population, which has exploded," Howell told ABC News. "We shouldn't even be comparing to Obama anyways; it was supposed to be a categorically different program for mass deportation into the millions to beat Eisenhower. It's obvious that unless worksite enforcement becomes the backbone of operations, the numbers won't hit mass deportation levels."
