President Donald Trump came into office promising the largest mass deportation in U.S history, targeting the more than 10 million unauthorized migrants living in the United States. Since then, data shows border crossings have plummeted, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests have doubled, and the number of people in detention is at an all-time high.
NBC News is tracking immigration enforcement using ICE data both public and internal as well as data from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency. This page will be updated as new data is released.
While the Trump administration has promised mass deportations, the number of people deported by ICE has not been regularly released to the public. NBC News has obtained internal ICE data on deportations which is reflected below.
Trump administration officials say they are prioritizing the arrest and deportation of criminals, but ICE has made slow progress arresting the "worst of the worst."ICE told Congress last year that, as of July, it had identified 435,000 unauthorized immigrants with criminal convictions in the United States who were not in custody. Of those non-citizens, 13,099 were convicted of murder and 15,811 were convicted of sexual assault. As of the end of May, 2025, ICE had arrested 752 non-citizens convicted of murder and 1,693 convicted of sexual assault.
Meanwhile, data from Customs and Border Protection shows that unauthorized crossings at the southern border have plummeted.
