In 2022, fewer than 30k illegals were deported

According to new Immigration and Customs Enforcement figures, fewer than 30,000 illegal aliens (including just over 23,000 convicted criminals) were deported from American communities during Fiscal Year (FY), 2022.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released The annual ICE report was released during the holiday weekend. It shows significant reductions in interior immigration enforcement compared with previous years such as 2017, 2018 and 2019.

In particular, ICE agents deported roughly 28,000 illegal aliens from the United States interior — less than 0.3 percent of the 11 to 22 million illegal aliens who are estimated to be living in American communities.

ICE agents now deport only 2,350 illegal immigrants each month from the United States Interior, whereas once they deported almost 8,000 illegal aliens each monthly.

Chart via Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Just over 23,000 of the deported illegal aliens from the United States interior were convicted criminals. This indicates that ICE deports 68 percent fewer convicted illegal aliens than it did in FY 2018, which saw nearly 73,000 deported.

Overall, Biden’s DHS has reduced deportations of illegal aliens living in American communities by more than 70 percent compared to FY 2018 when more than 95,300 illegal aliens were deported from the United States interior.

In its report, ICE couples deportations from the U.S. interior with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) removals of illegal aliens who recently arrived at the nation’s borders.

Together, 72,100 illegal immigrants were deported from the United States during FY 2022. But, as noted, only around 28,000 were illegal aliens living within American communities while nearly 44,000 were newly arrived illegal aliens.

Chart via Immigration and Customs Enforcement

FY 2022 marks Biden’s second year in which ICE’s interior immigration enforcement operations have been gutted to ensure that most of the nation’s illegal alien population is not eligible for arrest or deportation.

Research has shown that deportations are extremely cost-efficient for Americans, as deporting every illegal alien in the United States costs about six times less than what taxpayers are forced to pay to subsidize the nation’s 11 to 22 million illegal aliens.

John Binder works as a reporter for Breitbart news. Email him at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter here. 

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