FROM FOX FOX NEWS: With over 500,000 illegal aliens deported since President Donald Trump took office in January, the administration is on track to significantly exceed the record number of illegals deported out of the United States.
Since Trump’s return to the Oval Office on Jan. 20, the administration has deported over 515,000 illegal aliens, according to a high-ranking official at the Department of Homeland Security.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital the administration is “on pace to shatter historic records” by deporting 600,000 illegals by the end of Trump’s first year back in office. She said that in total, more than two million illegal aliens have left the U.S., including 1.6 million who voluntarily self-deported, as well as the over 515,000 deportations. Another 485,000 illegal aliens have been arrested by DHS since Trump took office.
McLaughlin said, “This is just the beginning.”
Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “have jump-started an agency that was vilified and barred from doing its job for the last four years,” McLaughlin said.
“Illegal aliens are hearing our message to leave now or face the consequences. Migrants are now even turning back before they reach our borders,” said McLaughlin, pointing to what she said has been a 99.99 percent drop in migration through Panama’s Darien Gap, which is a key migration route to the U.S.
“In the face of a historic number of injunctions from activist judges, ICE, CBP, and the U.S. Coast Guard have made historic progress to carry out President Trump’s promise of arresting and deporting illegal aliens who have invaded our country.”
McLaughlin said, “Nothing—not even a government shutdown—will slow us down from making America safe again.”
The report notes that DHS is still working during the government shutdown as they seek to arrest the “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens in the US. Sweeps this weekend led tothe arrests of illegals convicted of rape of a child, assault, hit-and-run, kidnapping, and other crimes.
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) October 21, 2025
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— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) October 20, 2025
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