President Joseph R. Biden Jr. focused enforcement on the record numbers of people who had recently crossed the southern border and used expanded emergency powers under Covid to conduct four million deportations during his tenure. Mr. Trump conducted 1.9 million during his first term.
The Trump administration revoked a Biden-era policy that prohibited ICE arrests at or near schools, places of worship and other "sensitive locations."
President Joe Biden is leaving office with several immigration-related milestones under his belt, including the lowest number of deportations in a single year, the highest number of border encounters in another and record fentanyl seizures.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman has canceled a Biden-era policy that blocked agents and officers from arresting unauthorized immigrants near “sensitive” locations such as hospitals,
The current chief of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acknowledged that President Joe Biden could’ve done more to support his agency and secure the southern border. Patrick Lechleitner, who became acting ICE director in July 2023 and will be leaving once President-elect Donald Trump returns to power,
The outgoing head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) said in an interview Wednesday that President Biden should have tightened border security sooner. “Do you think that
Biden fulfilled a promise to restore the refugee resettlement program but also cracked down on the right to asylum
When Donald Trump takes control of the White House on Monday, he will inherit something his voters hardly would have expected during a long campaign of berating outgoing President Joe Biden on immigration: a U.S.-Mexico border with the lowest number of illegal crossings in five years.
Trump has said he would like to deport everyone living illegally in the United States, though he has not set a specific numerical target. Who is most at risk?
United States President Donald Trump has moved swiftly to begin firing more than 1,000 staff from the Joe Biden administration "not aligned with our vision".
Border czar Tom Homan said President Donald Trump's mass deportation has begun as Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers can now arrest illegal immigrants in churches and schools.