U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday that it arrested and deported more people during a recent 12-month period than at any time in its 23-year history.

ICE said it deported 483,200 people in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, up 9% from its previous high of 442,640 in the same period a year earlier and up 78% from 271,480 in 2024, the last year of Joe Biden’s presidency.

ICE arrested 474,850 people in the most recent 12-month period, roughly double the 239,890 arrests a year earlier and more than quadruple the 113,430 arrests in 2024.

ICE had not released such precise counts since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, including for 2025.

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      Not like we would really know much for past admins, ICE has basically never had any actual major oversight and it’s a HIGHLY cancerous tumor on our society

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    2 million come and go yearly just for work and return home on their own. It’s just performative unless they go after the people who are hiring them, which isn’t something they will ever do. In a lot of ways, deporting them just gets them closer to home. That also assumes these numbers are accurate and not bloated to make Magats Happy.