A new analysis has debunked corporate media claims that President Donald Trump is lagging behind his predecessor when it comes to deportations.
While the number of illegal aliens deported by Trump since taking office in January appears to be lagging a bit behind former President Joe Biden’s number of deportees in 2024, a new analysis by Just the News shows that this is not, in fact, the case.
It turns out the Biden administration counted “turnarounds” as removals or deportations.
“Turnarounds” are those turned back at the border who never entered the U.S. and were not technically “deported.”
These turnarounds accounted for 80% of the Biden administration’s so-called removals/deportations that year.
However, turnarounds are not included in Trump’s figures.
This means that Trump’s estimated 660 removals per day of illegal immigrants who were living in the U.S. interior is far beyond Biden’s (less than 20% of an estimated 770 a day, or about 130 a day).
That’s about five times faster that Trump is deporting migrants than Biden was, despite deceitful media attempts to portray the opposite.
This should not be surprising given that Biden was always reluctant to restrict illegal immigration in any way and did everything he could to encourage and allow it.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons talked up the administration’s efforts on Tuesday in a press release.
“We’re just 100 days into this administration, and thanks to President Trump and Secretary Noem, ICE is using every tool at its disposal to enforce our country’s immigration laws and protect our communities,” Lyons said.
The numbers given above are for ICE only; across all agencies, Homeland Security reported that 158,000 illegal immigrants have been arrested and more than 142,000 have been deported.
“Deportations have already exceeded 142,000—this is just the beginning. President Trump and Secretary Noem have jump-started an agency that was vilified and barred from doing its job for the last four years,” Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told Just the News.
“In the face of a historic number of injunctions from activist judges, ICE, CBP, and the U.S. Coast Guard have made historic progress to carryout [sic] President Trump’s promise of arresting and deporting aliens who have invaded our country,” she continued.
An added benefit of the crackdown is that most migrants won’t even try to cross the border when they know they are likely to be caught and deported.
“Additionally, illegal aliens are hearing our message to leave now or face the consequences,” she explained.
“Thousands are using the CBP Home App to self-deport.
“Migrants are now even turning back before they reach our borders—migration through Panama’s Darien Gap is down 99.99%.”
Border Czar Tom Homan said that more funding is needed to make even a dent in the millions of migrants Biden let into the country, but that they are doing “great” with what they have so far.
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