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Executive SummaryThe number of deportations within the United States increased by a factor of five over the course of the first year of the second Trump administration. This new finding comes from a Deportation Data Project release of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data covering the first year-plus of the Trump administration (updating a previous report covering the first nine months of the administration). The new dataset covers the period from the middle of the Biden administration through March 10, 2026. Comparing the last six months of the Biden administration to the recent peak of enforcement in January 2026, we...

Iranians celebrating the cancelation of visas for Islamic Regime relatives living luxurious lives in the U.S. have warned the seven deported so have are just “the tip of the iceberg.” Shayan Khosravanifarahani, a journalist and activist, praised State Secretary Marco Rubio for taking action against those who have ties to the regime, telling The Post that for too long they’ve living comfortably using money stolen from the Iranian people. He said the families of the regime were ”using American” to platform their propaganda, lobby, get educated and generally live a safe, more comfortable life. On Saturday, Rubio revoked the green...

An immigration appeals board has denied Mahmoud Khalil’s latest bid to dismiss his deportation case, a largely expected ruling that brings the former Columbia University graduate student and Palestinian activist one step closer to re-arrest and possible expulsion. The Board of Immigration Appeals issued the final order of removal on Thursday, according to Khalil’s lawyers. The board’s rulings are not public, and an inquiry to the US Department of Justice was not immediately returned. Khalil said he was not surprised by the ruling, which he called “biased and politically motivated.”

Martin-Chavez’s wife started to worry at a little past 7 in the morni. Chavez usually arrives home at 7:15 for breakfast after he drops off their children at Milan Elementary. But Chavez never returned home that day. The Guatemala native was one of three people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Feb. 24 in Milan, a town of about 1,800 people in north-central Missouri. As soon as her children’s passports come in, Chavez’s wife said, she will leave for Guatemala to reunite with her husband, who was deported there.

The son of a notorious Iranian regime leader is enjoying an affluent lifestyle in Los Angeles, the California Post can reveal. Campaigners are calling for Eissa Hashemi, 43, to be investigated and deported for defiantly refusing to denounce his mother’s sickening past. On Monday, he appeared unfazed by the controversy and defiantly brushed off a reporter’s questions, declining to speak after a workout at his fancy gym. The college psychology lecturer is the son of Masoumeh Ebtekar, known as “Screaming Mary,” who acted as spokesperson for violent militants who stormed the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrested 811 immigrants in New York City since August who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Of these “collateral” arrests — as the agency calls them — 85% involved people with no criminal history, according to newly obtained ICE data. THE CITY had reported on several examples of those arrests, including that of a 28-year-old construction worker on the streets of Corona, Queens while he was headed to work one morning. Agents claimed they had been looking for his neighbor, but they took him instead. Overall, these “collateral” arrests...

An African nation is calling for Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., to be extradited after Vice President JD Vance claimed during an interview that the lawmaker committed immigration fraud... ...snip... "Deportation? Please you’re just sending the princess back to her kingdom. Extradition? Say the word …" the post read.

Oh, I had not heard about this at all. It happened a couple of days ago, and what a development. This began as a COVID-era fraud case, but what it ended up as should strike fear in the heart of every Somali Learing Center hustler and every Armenian hospice provider. That naturalized citizenship is not the shield of steel one might have thought it was, or that it used to be back when no one paid attention to such things. For the year between April 2020 and the next May, 25-year-old Joff Stenn Wroy Philossaint of Fort Lauderdale, FL, had...

🚨 JUST IN: Literal PLANELOADS of illegals are on their way out of Minneapolis today DESPITE the Democrats’ efforts to block their deportations KEEP DEPORTING, ICE! The American people are BEHIND YOU! 🇺🇸🔥

🚨 BREAKING: The SUPREME COURT has announced they’ll be stepping in after activist judges BARRED the Trump admin from ending Biden’s Temporary Protected Status for over 350,000 Haitians Thank GOD! Temporary means TEMPORARY. SEND THEM ALL BACK. The nightmare being lived by the people of Springfield and so many other American towns will FINALLY be over. SCOTUS will be hearing oral arguments in the case in April. 🎥 @BillMelugin_

As the Trump administration appears to shift its sweeping mass deportation agenda, rattled immigration hardliners warn the move could become a midterm liability. Major conservative groups are pushing President Donald Trump to make 2026 the year he shifts his mass deportation agenda into overdrive. However, the calls come at a time when the administration — reeling from two deadly shootings in Minneapolis and tanking public support for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — is seemingly backing down from a wider deportation policy that targets all illegal immigrants, not just criminals. With a razor-thin 217-214 GOP majority in the House of...

New legal victory: the First Circuit just ruled that the Trump Administration can CONTINUE deporting illegal aliens to third countries. There is more work ahead on this important issue, but this is a key win for @POTUS’s immigration agenda. @thejusticedept attorneys will continue fighting tirelessly to advance and protect President Trump’s policies in court.

After fighting for almost a decade to gain U.S. citizenship, time is running out for Marine Corps veteran Paul Canton. He’ll likely be deported soon back to his native New Zealand, despite serving in the U.S. military for seven years, and building a life in Central Florida for more than 25 years. Canton’s story first hit the news cycle in 2020 when his application for citizenship was rejected by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, even though the former Marine had no criminal record. Despite the setback, Canton and his family kept working on his citizenship case, gaining support from leaders...

Summary Norwegian authorities are dropping charges against Mullah Krekar, the founder of Ansar al-Islam, who had been charged with conspiracy to murder his political foes in Iraq. He is to be deported to Iraq after the government is handed over to the Iraqis on June 30. Analysis A Norwegian court threw out charges against Mullah Krekar, the founder of militant Islamist group Ansar al-Islam, on June 15, citing insufficient evidence. Krekar had faced charges of conspiring to murder political rivals in Iraq. He has lived in Norway since 2003, despite an expulsion order. Now that he no longer faces trial,...

In May 2025, a 15-year-old migrant gunned down a 52-year-old father in Sweden, after being paid almost twenty thousand euros in a murder-for-hire plot; the killer is currently in prison, sentenced to a brief three years and six months, meaning he should be out some time in 2029. Upon his release, prosecutors were asking that the “boy” be repatriated back to his country of origin, but the judges with the power to decide rejected the request, “ruling that expulsion would be disproportionate given the boy’s personal circumstances.” (The “boy” had come to Sweden as a child.) Mind you, the “boy”...

Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in. The Trump administration has hailed the exodus—negative net migration—as the fulfillment of its promise to ramp up deportations and restrict new visas. Beneath the stormy optics of that immigration crackdown, however, lies a less-noticed reversal: America’s own citizens are leaving in record numbers, replanting themselves and their families in lands they find more affordable and safe.

As pathways to freedom have narrowed in immigration courts across the United States, a record number of detainees are giving up their cases and voluntarily leaving the country. Last year, 28% of completed immigration removal cases among those in detention ended in voluntary departure, a higher share than in any year prior, a CBS News analysis of decades of court records found. That figure only appears to be climbing as the Trump administration's immigration crackdown widens and detention populations swell. The percentage of voluntary departures among those detained grew nearly every month of 2025, reaching 38% in December. The analysis...

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has added 18 more Nigerians to its list of criminal aliens slated for deportation under its "worst-of-the-worst" category, raising the total number to 97. The new additions, whose offenses include wire fraud, mail fraud, and identity theft, are part of a nationwide operation targeting convicted immigrant offenders. This follows last week's listing of 79 Nigerians, reflecting the Trump administration's intensified enforcement policy. The DHS stated the arrests fulfill a mandate to begin mass deportations with the most dangerous offenders. Key Points: - The individuals face removal to Nigeria, alongside the permanent stigma...

It’s useful, if unserious, for congressional Democrat leaders this week to have issued a list of demands in exchange for votes to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration law enforcement. The administration should see it as a reminder that the default position of Democrats is “pretend to support deporting illegal aliens while overcomplicating the process so as to render it impossible.” Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both of New York, published the demands in an open letter on Wednesday, detailing 10 things they say are needed to strike a deal on...

Those who claim President Barack Obama deported illegal aliens more "humanely" make the following assertions: a) ICE didn't go into the streets under Obama; b) there were no street activists/protesters/agitators; c) ICE only deported those with criminal records beyond illegal entry or illegally overstaying; d) Obama's deportation numbers largely include "returns" or those deported at the border; e) the Obama administration did not engage in "lawlessness"; and f) ICE and/or Customs and Border Patrol arrested only illegal aliens after first securing a judicial warrant. As for a), under Obama, ICE did go into the streets, including into the interior and...