The United States deported 442,637 people in the fiscal year 2025, from October 2024 to September 2025. These are the first official deportation statistics published by the Donald Trump Government, known for the opacity of its data, which had not been updated since November 2024. The new figures, appearing in a budget justification report for fiscal year 2027 addressed to Congress, confirm that the deportation machinery is not delivering the results expected by the Republican president, despite being at the top of the agenda for his second term.
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One of Trump’s campaign promises that earned him the support of a large part of his voters was his intention to carry out the largest deportation in history, setting a goal of deporting one million people per year.
However, the statistics reflect the push the Administration has given to expulsions. In 2025, about 171,000 more people were deported than in the previous fiscal year. The figure includes the last three months of Joe Biden’s Government, when the Democrat expanded measures against irregular immigration in response to numerous criticisms received for the massive influx of migrants during his term.
The newly published data do not include so-called self-deportations, which the Government wants to promote as an alternative mechanism to boost expulsion numbers. For this, it offers a bonus of $2,600, initially $1,000, to those who leave voluntarily. Experts warn there is much confusion about who can benefit from this, and cases have been reported of people who left voluntarily and did not receive the money. Although not official data, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been issuing statements claiming that more than two million people have self-deported. Regarding deportations, in January they reported that more than 670,000 people were deported in the first year of the mandate.
The published report refutes the Administration’s often-repeated claim that they are focusing on deporting “the worst of the worst.” According to their own data, of all deportations carried out in fiscal year 2025, only 166,939 people had criminal convictions or faced criminal charges, representing 38% of the total.
Indiscriminate arrests by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the brutality with which agents have conducted raids have caused most of the population to disapprove of the Administration’s immigration policy, as surveys have shown. Instead of criminals, ICE detention centers are overcrowded with people with no criminal record, legal resident status, and entire families with children who have committed no crime. “ICE will continue consolidating these efforts and has raised its future annual target to 500,000 expulsions” of criminals, the report says.
According to independent data published by Deportationdata.org, comparing the six months before the inauguration with January 2026, arrests of people without convictions multiplied by more than eight (8.7 times); arrests of people with convictions for non-violent crimes doubled, and arrests of people with convictions for violent crimes increased by more than a third (37%).
The Government report shows that the average daily cumulative population of undocumented foreigners held in detention centers ended fiscal year 2025 at 48,706, representing a 29% increase compared to fiscal year 2024. It is estimated that currently more than 70,000 people are detained in the centers, and the Government’s target for this fiscal year and the next is 99,000 people.
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