The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported the most illegal immigrants in fiscal year 2024 than it has in almost a decade.
ICE’s annual report released on Dec. 19 showed the agency removed 271,484 immigrants to 192 countries from Oct. 1, 2023, to Sept. 30, 2024.
An estimated 11 million illegal immigrants arrived in the country under the Biden administration’s open border policy.
That represents the highest number of illegal immigrants removed since President Joe Biden took office in 2021 and eclipses the number of illegal immigrants removed under President-elect Donald Trump’s first term, which started in 2017.
During Trump’s first term, ICE deportations peaked at 267,258 during the 2019 fiscal year, according to a previous ICE report. …