(15 May 2025)
Despite deploying innumerable staff from other agencies to assist in enforcement activities and
ordering active-duty military to facilitate removals at the border, the Department of Homeland
Security’s claims of record arrests and deportations never materialized. This didn’t stop this
administration from announcing in an
April 28, 2025, press release
claiming that “just 100 days into this administration” there have been “Skyrocketing Arrests and
Deportations.”
These press release claims were not simply untrue but preposterous. This report documents Trump’s
current record both on arrests and on removals using the government’s actual data. The report updates
TRAC’s
February 2025
and
March 2025
earlier reports on this same topic.
Currently, using an apples-to-apples comparison,
Trump’s average daily rate of removals is around one (1) percent below Biden’s average daily rate
for immigration removals.
The report also documents how the Department of Homeland Security’s
Office of Homeland Security Statistics (OHSS)
has ceased publication of its reports. Despite a stated mission “to foster transparency,” OHSS has
grown strangely silent. The monthly series on immigration enforcement stopped in November 2024 despite
the office’s central goal to publish "objective, credible, accurate, relevant, timely, and
authoritative statistical...data products to increase transparency for the interagency, Congress, and
the public."
Fortunately, a second source whose semi-monthly publications were mandated by Congress continued to
publish its statistical series. Then as the 100-day mark approached ICE delayed publishing these
reports which had come out every two weeks for years. Two weeks went by, then four weeks. Finally,
after the 100-day celebrations had passed, ICE belatedly published its data covering this missing
period. These reports provide the administration’s actual numbers utilized in this report.
TRAC’s report contains detailed tables documenting Trump’s current record at the 100-day mark. We are
also providing permanent links to the government’s semi-monthly statistical data that document Trump’s
current record to ensure these spreadsheets remain readily available to the public.
TRAC is a self-supporting, nonpartisan, and independent research organization specializing in
data collection and analysis on federal enforcement, staffing, and spending. We produce multiple
reports every month on critical issues, and we also provide comprehensive data analysis tools.
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