Secretary Mullin at 100-Day Mark at DHS: ‘Deportations Are Way Up,’ 2026 Stats Set to Outpace ‘Well Past’ 2025 Numbers

Breitbart ^ | June 28, 2026 | Matthew Boyle

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Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin told Breitbart News exclusively that deportation numbers in 2026 will very soon outpace all of 2025, and that agents from across the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are removing illegal aliens from the United States interior at record rates.

As for how DHS is accomplishing this, Mullin said it is by focusing on those who have criminal records or final orders of deportation from judges — and oftentimes, he said, the federal agents will find several other illegal aliens being harbored in the same homes and they arrest them and deport them too.

One death from an illegal is 100 percent preventable. One death, and just in Tennessee alone, we’ve had over 41 deaths in the last 12 months from an illegal, from people that were here in this country illegally. Fifty percent of all the deaths that have happened in Fairfax County, [Virginia,] just down the road from here — 50 percent committed by illegals. We should all be working together to get these individuals out of our streets.

When you have states like California or New Jersey or Virginia that become a sanctuary state, what we find is almost every police chief and almost every sheriff wants to participate with us but because we have these lunatic left-leaning sanctuary city politicians that are more interested in protecting the criminals than they are law-abiding citizens, their hands are tied and it makes it very difficult.

“So far with President Trump’s second term, we’ve arrested just over 1,900 terrorists,” Mullin said. “Yes, those were let in by the Biden administration. These aren’t individuals we’ve caught at the border, these are individuals that are in the interior.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: 2026; criminalaliens; deportations; dhs; illegals

[deks]

Some good news.

[Nervous Tick]

excellent!

[deks]

He said that in about 6 weeks the 2026 deportations will surpass 2025 numbers.

[mythenjoseph]

No, this guy hangs with Thune, not in control of his own decisions/The Trooper he hired to replace Bovino is one of his former staffers so he won’t be a cowboy. Another veiled subversive C__t.

[dpetty121263]

Plenty of illegals still on the loose..

[1035rep]

Thank you President Trump! It will take time to round up all the aliens that the libtards brought in.

[zeestephen]

After Trump cleans out the criminal aliens, I still think he will take his foot off the gas, and vigorously support a general Amnesty, just like Bush-McCain in 2005-2006.

[FLT-bird]

I'm glad to hear the Wall is finally being completed.

I support going after the worst first and am glad to hear we're catching and deporting more of them. BUT....what I want to hear is the total number deport this year. That includes those who leave voluntarily....after we catch them, put them in very no frills detention centers, make it clear they are going to lose their asylum cases and get involuntarily deported anyway and gosh wouldn't they rather agree to be deported and end their detention sooner? Last year we involuntarily deported something like 600,000 but another 2.3 million voluntarily self deported.

3 million out is not bad for the first year. How many millions can we get out of the country this year? I want to see at least 5 million gone.

P.S.....why has all public assistance of any kind to any illegal alien not been cut off? Why are we not raiding work sites where we know a high percentage of the workforce are illegals? Why are we not threatening those who employ illegals - that includes owners and managers - with PRISON TIME if they are caught employing illegals? We need to significantly increase the rate of deportations.