More deportations, but far from the largest in history': Nine months of Trump's immigration crusade in charts

"Donald Trump triumphantly returned to the Oval Office on January 20, 2025, with the mission of inaugurating a new golden age for the United States. And transforming immigration was always a central component of that grand vision that began with an avalanche of executive orders signed on his first day in office. The promise was to carry out the largest deportation in history and expel all undocumented immigrants from the country."

"The initial target ranged from 11 million people the official number of undocumented migrants to around 20 million the highest figure Trump ever mentioned during the campaign. But with his second presidency now past the nine-month mark, reality has eroded these objectives, and a more modest if equally enormous deportation goal has emerged, according to various reports: one million people."

"To successfully expel so many people from the country, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) machinery must not only be well-oiled, but also expanded at every stage of the deportation effort: arrests, detentions in immigration centers and prisons, and repatriation flights or flights to third countries. The new budget that ICE received as part of the mega-law passed in July will allow for an unprecedented agency expansion in a bid to reach those goals."

Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office on January 20, 2025, with an agenda to transform immigration and enact mass deportations. Initial plans targeted between 11 million and around 20 million undocumented residents, though official planning settled on a reduced goal of roughly one million deportations. Achieving that scale requires substantial enlargement of ICE capacity across arrests, detention facilities, and repatriation logistics. A new budget from a July mega-law aims to fund unprecedented agency expansion. ICE activity has risen significantly and instilled widespread fear among migrant communities, but operational levels have not yet reached administration targets. Early plans included increasing daily apprehensions to 1,000 from about 300.

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