Overview
- On Wednesday, White House border czar Tom Homan acknowledged deportations have slowed recently while saying about 800,000 people have been removed and announcing plans to combine CBP quick returns with ICE interior removals for public totals.
- Independent researchers at UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project estimate the current pace is about 1,286 removals per day, roughly 460,000 a year, a rate far below the administration’s public targets and at odds with some official claims.
- State data from Nevada show ICE arrests rose for people without criminal convictions after Homan pledged more targeted operations, and most convicted arrestees there faced misdemeanors rather than felonies.
- Former Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino and other hardliners have publicly attacked Homan as too soft, and officials say enforcement tempo has been constrained by the deadly Minneapolis operation, court fights, sanctuary policies, and DHS leadership turnover.
- The counting change will raise headline removal figures and is likely to sharpen political and legal fights over transparency, who is being arrested, and the human impact of stepped‑up interior enforcement on families and local courts.