The total deportation number comprises both border and interior removals. Of the 72,177 illegal aliens removed in fiscal year 2022, 43,937 happened at the border, while the remaining 28,240 were deported from U.S. communities.
The Trump administration removed more illegal aliens from the country. According to ICE, there were 62,739 interior removals in fiscal year 2020 and 85,958 the year before that—both numbers significantly higher than 28,240 in fiscal year 2022.
“ICE continues to disrupt transnational criminal organizations, remove threats to national security and public safety, uphold the integrity of U.S. immigration laws, and collaborate with its colleagues across government and law enforcement in pursuit of our shared mission to keep U.S. communities safe,” Johnson said.
“ICE’s annual report highlights the efforts of our more than 20,000 law enforcement and support personnel in responding to complex cross-border and domestic threats,” he added. “We will continue to safeguard national security and public safety while living our core values: integrity, courage, and excellence.”
“Deportations remained well below Trump-era levels in FY 2022, amid Joe Biden’s historic border crisis,” Jordan wrote.
“It’s no wonder illegal aliens continue to come,” he added. “They know once they’re here, Biden won’t enforce the law to remove them!”
Report
According to the ICE report, the deportations in fiscal year 2022 involved over 150 countries. Of the 72,177 deportees, 33,832 were deported to Mexico, the country with the highest number of its nationals being sent back.Other top deportation destinations included El Salvador (7,231), Guatemala (6,612), Honduras (6,309), Columbia (3,753), Nicaragua (2,538), and Brazil (1,767).
Among those deported, 44,096 had been charged or convicted of crimes, including “2,667 known or suspected gang members, 55 known or suspected terrorists, and seven human rights violators.”
Another 74 deportees were “foreign fugitives wanted by their governments for crimes including homicide, rape, terrorism, and kidnapping.”
The agency’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 46,396 illegal aliens with criminal histories.
“This group had 198,498 charges and convictions for an average of 4.3 charges or convictions per individual,” the report says. “These included 21,531 charges or convictions for assault; 8,164 for sex offenses and sexual assault; 5,554 for weapons offenses; 1,501 for homicide-related offenses; and 1,114 for kidnapping.”
Homeland Security Investigations, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, conducted 36,685 criminal arrests, seized over 1.8 million pounds of narcotics, assisted 1,170 victims of child exploitation, and assisted 765 victims of human trafficking, according to the report.
Title 42 was invoked in March 2020 as an order issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was put in place to stop the spread of COVID, as illegal aliens could be quickly turned away at the southern border rather than processed at immigration detention facilities under Title 8 immigration law.
