Is Trump’s immigration clampdown working?

Donald Trump has been back in office for less than three months, and already the immigration landscape has shifted dramatically. According to a March report from the New York Post, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more than 113,000 immigrants and deported over 100,000 since 20 January — nearly 1,430 per day. The message is simple: leave now, or face removal with jail time.

That’s a staggering reversal from the Joe Biden years, when enforcement all but collapsed. From October 2022 through September 2024, the ICE deported just 313,630 illegal immigrants, averaging only 287 per day.