EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Expected to Break All-Time Deportation Record
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Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Mexican cartels and U.S. gangs are offering up to $50,000 for attacks on federal agents as part of a coordinated campaign targeting ICE and CBP agents on “America Reports.”
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EXCLUSIVE: With more than 500,000 illegal aliens deported since President Donald Trump took office in January, the administration is on track to far surpass the record number of illegal aliens deported from the United States.
Since Trump returned to the Oval Office on Jan. 20, the administration has deported more than 515,000 illegal aliens, according to a senior Department of Homeland Security official.
DHS Deputy Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital that the administration is “on track to shatter historic records” by deporting 600,000 illegal immigrants by the end of Trump’s first year back in office. She said that in total, more than two million illegal aliens have left the United States, including 1.6 million who voluntarily deported themselves, as well as more than 515,000 expulsions. Since Trump took office, 485,000 illegal aliens have been arrested by DHS.
McLaughlin said “this is just the beginning” and that Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “have revived an agency that has been vilified and banned from doing its job for the past four years.”
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A senior Homeland Security official said the administration is close to “shattering” the record for illegal aliens deported in President Trump’s first year. (White House; Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo)
“Illegal aliens are hearing our message to leave now or face the consequences. Migrants are now even turning around before reaching our borders,” McLaughlin said, highlighting what she said was a 99.99 percent drop in migration through Darien Gap in Panama, which is a key migration route to the United States.
“In the face of a historic number of injunctions from activist judges, ICE, CBP, and the U.S. Coast Guard have made historic progress in fulfilling President Trump’s promise to arrest and deport illegal aliens who have invaded our country.”
This weekend, DHS said it was continuing its elimination of the “worst of the worst” illegal alien criminals across the country, amid the ongoing government shutdown. Over the weekend, DHS said it arrested illegal immigrants convicted of child rape, assault, hit-and-run, kidnapping and other crimes.
One of those arrested was Erick Xavier Romero, a Dominican national, who the agency said was convicted of raping a child in Boston. Another illegal Guatemalan national, German Osvaldo Cortez-Chajon, was arrested over the weekend after being convicted of traveling to meet a child for an illegal sex act in Dale County, Alabama. A third illegal Mexican national, Graciano Lopez-Flores, was arrested following a conviction for indecent liberties with a child in Orange County, North Carolina.
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From left to right, top to bottom: Erick Xavier Romero, German Osvaldo Cortez-Chajon, Graciano Lopez-Flores, Shahed Hassan, Van Pham, Patricia Pimental-Cordero, Ramona Mercado-Vasquez and Karlett Zagal-Salazar. (ICE; EDS)
Also in North Carolina, ICE arrested Shahed Hassan, an illegal alien from Bangladesh, who was convicted of simple assault, possession of drug paraphernalia, unlawful carrying of a concealed weapon, DUI, probation violation, felony theft, and violation of domestic violence protection order in Wake County.
Just to the north, ICE arrested Van Pham of Laos, who was convicted of five counts of kidnapping and burglary in Fairfax County, Virginia.
In Massachusetts, ICE arrested Patricia Pimental-Cordero of the Dominican Republic, who was convicted of two counts of hit-and-run in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Another illegal immigrant, Ramona Mercado-Vasquez, from the Caribbean island of Dominica, was arrested by ICE in Bergen County, New Jersey, following a conviction for kidnapping and theft.
In Wisconsin, ICE arrested Mexican national Karlett Zagal-Salazar on drug trafficking charges.
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Chained migrants board a transport van after getting off a plane at Valley International Airport, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025, in Harlingen, Texas. (Michael González/AP Photo)
Commenting on the arrests, McLaughlin told Fox News Digital that “nothing, not even a government shutdown, will stop us from making America safe again.”
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She criticized the Democratic Party, saying, “As Democrats in Congress continue to maintain a government shutdown, our ICE law enforcement agents are not slowing down in arresting the worst of the worst illegal alien criminals. »
