Trump's ICE reports largest number of deportations in history as his immigration hawk Stephen Miller takes control

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Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump's mass deportation campaign was just installed as White House chief of staff.

Published: 13:40 GMT, 12 November 2026 | Updated: 13:51 GMT, 12 November 2026

Donald Trump’s ICE agents deported a record number of migrants in the last year and the hardliner who built the crackdown has just taken over the West Wing.

ICE removed 483,200 people in the fiscal year that closed September 30, according to DHS numbers obtained by CBS News, beating the 442,640 the agency reported a year earlier.

The agency also logged more than 491,000 immigration arrests, nearly 475,000 of them civil administrative arrests that require no criminal charge at all, another record.

Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s mass deportation campaign and the aide who has spent two years driving ICE toward higher arrest quotas, was just installed as White House chief of staff.

The record landed days after Trump sat down with CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’ and floated cutting a amnesty deal with Democrats.

‘I think it was too tough,’ the president said of his own crackdown in that interview, before turning around on Monday.

DHS has been far less transparent about its deportation numbers than prior administrations. The statistics office has not published a detailed monthly enforcement report covering ICE and Border Patrol since January 2025.

‘I couldn’t be prouder of the brave men and women of ICE,’ DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a statement issued with the numbers on Thursday.

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