Trump admin deported over 100,000 illegal immigrants since taking office as border crossings drop to just 7,000 in March

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has made 113,000 arrests and has carried out over 100,000 deportations since President Donald Trump took office, according to a report from the New York Post. “He’s doing what he was voted in to do. Point blank!” a source at ICE told the outlet. Additionally, illegal border crossings have continued to drop. In February there were 8,347, in the month of March that dropped to 7,000, also a 94 percent drop from March 2024.

Additionally, border encounters have reached record lows since the president was inaugurated, dropping off around 94 percent within Trump's first full month in office. During the campaign, Trump leaned heavily on the issue of illegal immigration impacting the United States as well as cracking down on criminal activity from foreign terrorist gangs that took root in different states throughout the U.S. such as Tren de Aragua.

He has taken measures such as using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, that has usually been used in wartime, to deport violent gang members from MS-13 and Tren de Aragua to El Salvador. Another source at ICE told reporters at the outlet, “Illegal entries into the United States are no longer a backdoor way to getting status."

Those who were intent on crossing illegally into the U.S. are “scared there are consequences now,” a DHS source told the outlet. "Everyone who is caught is charged and does time."

Under the Biden administration, when people illegally crossed the border, they were then often allowed to apply for asylum, whether or not those claims to asylum were proper, and then wait in the U.S. pending their immigration court date, sometimes years down the line.

This, as well as the CBP One app—which the Trump administration has now repurposed as a self-deportation app—has led to record numbers of illegal immigration in the United States.