Nine-hundred-thousand people have now been arrested and deported from the US since President Trump returned to office last year.
According to The Washington Examiner, deportation flights have now reached the highest levels since January last year, with 300 deportation flights leaving the US last month.
That figure is more than double the number during President Trump’s first full month back in the White House. In February 2025, 126 flights left the US.
In total, more than 3,000 government-chartered deportation flights have left the US during the second Trump presidency, and 900,000 illegal immigrants have been removed.
There has also been a massive increase in the number of internal flights, as immigration agencies transport deportees to detention centers.
Human Rights Watch notes that the expansion of deportations has not been limited to increasing arrests or detention space.
“Since January 2025, the Trump administration has drastically expanded ICE Air operations to local airports across the United States and countries around the world to facilitate its mass detention and deportation campaign operating with little transparency or accountability,” the organization’s website states.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says more than 2.2 million have also “self-deported” using the government’s CBP Home app.
Some advocates for lower immigration have suggested the voluntary self-deportation figures are a significant overestimate of how many people have actually left the country.
“I think they’re basing that on our data, which included all people, all people leaving the country, all foreign-born people,” said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
“I think they’re overselling what they’re doing.”
Yesterday, Alex Jones Live reported mixed news about the Trump administration’s flagship immigration polices.
On the one hand, there has been a record-breaking zero releases at the US southern border over the last 13 months.
But News of the stunning reversal of Biden’s open-border policies came at the same time as more worrying reports that the DHS is abandoning plans to convert a number of newly purchased facilities into mega-centers for detention, despite a $38 billion plan for expanding detention capacity.
One of the facilities is in Social Circle, Georgia.
“The City of Social Circle has received notification from Congressman Mike Collins that the Department of Homeland Security… is no longer pursuing an ICE detention facility within the City of Social Circle,” the local government said in a statement Thursday.
Originally, the facilities was planned to house up to 10,000 detainees—more than twice the population of the city—in addition to over 2,000 employees.
The facility cost the federal government $128.5 million, more than four times the price paid for it in 2023.
According to The New York Times, a total of seven facilities, from New Jersey to Utah, will be scrapped.
DHS began to rethink the plans to extend detention facilities after Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem was replaced by Markwayne Mullin.
It’s unclear what DHS will do with the facilities, many of which have been subject to legal challenges to prevent them from being repurposed for detention.
“From day one, DHS has remained singularly focused on removing the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from the United States and is always evaluating the best methods to do so,” a spokesperson said in a statement to CNN on Friday.
“These heinous criminals, once arrested, should be removed at lightning speed, not housed on American soil at the taxpayer’s expense. DHS is moving swiftly to utilize EXISTING detention space with our state and county partners.”
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Controlling the borders was always the key. Once they enter the country, the US taxpayers are always get crushed either by hordes of illegals eagerly becoming lifetime welfare recipients with the goal of living free off the State or hordes of illegal immigrants in the federal detention and deportation system with bloated budgets and skyrocketing operating costs. Tougher laws, enforcement and prosecutions of NGOs and their financiers that deliberately circumvent US immigration laws should already be in the works as well…but don’t hold your breath and wait for that.
FOX NEWS LITE tries to spin this as good news, when in fact it is a complete failure as to what we were promised
Cool. Just 49,000,000 more to go.
At this rate, itll only take about 50 years….
900,000 a month would help more.
I bet this is where we taxpayers are supporting them in other Countries…maybe their own. Sure they are being shipped out…BUT WE ARE PAYING FOR THEM ELSEWHERE!!!!
Yeah imagine that, a government which is essentially broke can borrow money to send off to another country as international aid. Absurd
While they now tell us Social Security benefits will be cut 20% or more starting in 2032