ICE Touts Record Arrest Numbers Days After Trump Called Policy ‘Too Tough’

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ICE deported 483,200 people and made more than 491,000 immigration arrests in fiscal year 2026, the highest annual totals in the agency’s history, according to figures the…

Less than a week after President Donald Trump called his administration's own immigration enforcement police "too tough," Homeland Security's latest news release touted a record-breaking year for immigration arrests for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

ICE deported 483,200 people and made more than 491,000 immigration arrests in fiscal year 2026, the highest annual totals in the agency’s history, according to figures the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released Thursday.

The number of deportations surpassed the previous record of 442,640 set in fiscal 2025. DHS said nearly 475,000 of the arrests in fiscal 2026 were administrative arrests, which involve alleged civil immigration violations rather than criminal charges.

The figures mark a significant expansion of immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump, whose administration has made mass deportations a central policy priority.

ICE reported more than 48,000 arrests and 44,000 removals in September alone, according to DHS.

“Fiscal Year 2026 saw the highest number of ICE deportations and arrests for any year in ICE’s history," DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a press release on Thursday. "September 2026 was the best September in ICE’s history in terms of arrests. The total number of ICE arrests in Fiscal Year 2026 was more than all three full fiscal years under Biden combined, as the patriots of ICE work around the clock to make America safe again. Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, ICE has been unleashed to target and remove illegal aliens so that we can save American lives.”

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, said in a post on X that while ICE had broken arrest records, comparisons of removals across administrations could be misleading because the Joe Biden administration also carried out more than 2 million expulsions under the Title 42 public health policy.

ICE's enforcement operations were supercharged by billions of dollars in funding under…

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