According to a new research, Biden carried out the most deportations since 2014.
In response to President Joe Biden's handling of immigration policy, President-elect Donald Trump intends to make mass deportations a pillar of his future administration.
However, the most recent ICE data shows that the Biden administration primarily concentrated on national security and public safety issues and conducted a substantial number of removals during the last fiscal year, surpassing the prior two years of Biden's president.
The difficulty Biden administration authorities faced along the southern border amid unprecedented global migration was reflected in the large number of deportations of individuals who had entered the country illegally. According to the report, ICE deported individuals to almost 200 nations. From October 1, 2023, until September 30, 2024, it is covered.
In the report, acting ICE Director Patrick Lechleitner stated, "The agency was called upon to do more throughout the year without commensurate funding, working within the confines of strained resources and competing priorities while steadfastly supporting the Department of Homeland Security and its component agencies in their efforts to secure the border."
In addition to announcing plans to arrest and deport huge numbers of unauthorised immigrants, Trump advisers are preparing to confront the same issues that Biden and his predecessors had in one of the main immigration agencies: a shortage of staff and resources.
In order to strengthen the agency's resources and carry out the president-elect's deportation pledge, Tom Homan, the man Trump appointed as his "border czar" for the next administration, stated on Wednesday that he will require congressional money.
Homan stated in an interview that he would need more ICE agents and at least 100,000 beds to hold undocumented immigrants, more than double the 40,000 detention beds that ICE is presently funded for. Approximately 6,000 immigration enforcement officers work for the department.
Homan stated on "The Source" on Wednesday, "We want to arrest as many people who are in the country illegally as we can."
ICE released rules under Biden that would limit enforcement actions to more specifically target individuals who are a threat to public safety, border security, or national security. In addition, Homan stated that he intends to conduct targeted operations against dangers to national security and public safety, but he has left the option open to apprehend any additional undocumented immigrants that may be found.
According to ICE's most recent report, approximately 32% of the 271,484 removals that were made during the previous fiscal year involved individuals with criminal backgrounds. Additionally, 113,431 immigrants were arrested by ICE's enforcement and removal department, which is fewer than the prior year. At the time of their arrest, 81,312 of them were either convicted of a crime or were facing criminal accusations.
In the United States, there are around 1.4 million individuals who have final removal orders. However, many of them are unable to return home either their nations would not accept them or because the immigration system still offers them some form of possible relief.
According to ICE's report, the agency handled almost 7.6 million individuals on the so-called non-detained docket—those who are not in ICE custody at the moment and are still undergoing the immigration process—who were either in removal proceedings or subject to final orders of removal.
In a single year, former President Barack Obama deported almost 400,000 people, many of whom had recently crossed the border. Trump's task of targeting people who are already in the nation is more difficult.
"Apprehension and deportation are two different things. A former Homeland Security official previously told , "We've been focused on ICE's ability to arrest people, but the act to get somebody deported does require some form of process unless they make a significant change in the immigration process."
The increased frequency of removals under Biden was also influenced by diplomatic initiatives with nations in the eastern hemisphere, such as China, and country agreements to increase the number of approved removal flights.
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