Biden v Trump: Numbers on deporting illegal immigrants
An April 28, 2025, press release claimed that the Trump administration's immigration arrests and deportations had “already surpassed the entirety of Fiscal Year 2024 [numbers], and we’re just 100 days into this administration.”
The numbers:
As to actual average daily numbers also shown in Table 1, during all of FY 2024 under the Biden administration, there were an average of 742 removals each day. Currently under President Trump he has averaged 737 removals each day, or one (1) percent fewer.
For arrests, Table 1 shows that during all of FY 2024 the Biden administration averaged 759 arrests each day, while currently under the Trump administration there has been an average of 778 arrests each day, or two (2) percent more.
So in the first 100 days, Trump's administration averaged slightly higher on arrests and slightly lower on removals of illegal immigrants than Biden's administration in 2024.
See more:
ICE's Annual Report, FY 2024: https://www.ice.gov/doclib/eoy/iceAnnualReportFY2024.pdf
