# DHS touts highest ICE deportations in history, as Mullin says agency has been ‘unleashed’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/dhs-touts-highest-ice-deportations-in-history-as-mullin-says-agency-has-been-unleashed/
- Published: 2026-11-13T02:54:59+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-13T03:20:43+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/us/dhs-touts-highest-ice-deportations-history-mullin-says-agency-unleashed
- Topics: World

## Key points

- ICE reported a record 483,200 deportations in fiscal year 2026.
- Arrests topped 491,000, exceeding the prior three-year combined total.
- August also set a monthly arrest record, DHS said.

## Summary

The Department of Homeland Security says US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recorded its highest annual arrest and deportation totals in the 2026 fiscal year. Secretary Markwayne Mullin credited President Donald Trump’s policies, saying the agency had been “unleashed”; the figures underline the administration’s sharp increase in immigration enforcement.

DHS reported more than 491,000 arrests, including nearly 475,000 administrative arrests, and 483,200 deportations. Arrests exceeded the combined totals for fiscal years 2022 to 2024 by nearly 65,000, while deportations were fewer than 3,000 short of that three-year total. August set a monthly arrest record of 50,925, and the department said more than 3 million migrants had left the US under Trump’s leadership.

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