The U.S. government seeks record-breaking migrant deportations

According to reports, since Trump’s return to the Oval Office on January 20, the administration has deported over 515,000 migrants, putting it on track to surpass historical deportation records.

Tricia McLaughlin, the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, stated that the administration is on pace to reach 600,000 deportations by the end of Trump’s first year back in office.

She added that a total of over 2 million migrants have left the U.S. — including 1.6 million who left voluntarily, and more than 515,000 who were forcibly deported.

Since Trump took office, another 485,000 migrants have been detained by the Department of Homeland Security.

“This is just the beginning,” McLaughlin said, claiming that Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have “revived an agency that had been discredited and paralyzed over the past four years.”

Citing what she described as a 99.99% reduction in migration through Panama’s Darién Gap, a key route for migrants heading to the U.S., McLaughlin claimed:

“Illegal aliens are hearing our message — leave now, or face the consequences. Migrants are turning back even before reaching our borders.”

She further asserted that, amid a surge in court rulings by active judges, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the U.S. Coast Guard have made “historic progress” in fulfilling Trump’s pledge to “arrest and deport illegal aliens who have invaded our country.”

The Department of Homeland Security also announced recently that, despite the ongoing government shutdown, operations to locate and detain migrants across the U.S. are continuing without interruption.