Donald Trump’s racist immigration forces deported over 440,000 people in the US fiscal year for 2025. His jackbooted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been terrorising American cities — and even killing US citizens — virtually since he came back to power in 2025.

US outlet Axios reported:

The top U.S. immigration enforcement agency deported 442,637 people between October 2024 and September 2025, according to newly-released statistics.

Adding:

The top-line figure is about 171,000 people more than the fiscal year before, but far short of Trump’s campaign promise to deport one million people a year.

Clearly Trump’s racist immigration regime is not hitting its grotesque targets:

The figure is the first official deportation statistic released under the Trump administration and was included in a congressional budget justification report.

Axios reported:

The Office of Homeland Security Statistics hasn’t updated its data since November of 2024. Homeland Security’s much-hyped “self deportation” figure is not included in the report. The agency has claimed in press releases that more than two million have “self-deported” but hasn’t shared regular data.

MAGA sad about Trump’s mere 400k deportations

Meanwhile Trump’s fascistic Make America Great Again (MAGA) allies have said the president has gone soft on deportations. Nigh-on half a million people ejected not enough for them then…

The grim-sounding Mass Deportation Coalition is chief among the complainers. Its leader, Mike Howell, told Axios:

The truth is the first year was not a year of mass deportation

Adding:

A conscious decision was made to go after the worst first, which was, we’ll call it a deviation from the central campaign promise of mass deportations.

A White House spokesperson told the outlet:

Nobody is changing the Administration’s immigration enforcement agenda and the President’s entire team is on the same page when it comes to implementing his policies.

Budgetary changes

And MAGA’s white supremacist weirdos might have more discomfort in store for them. A new report by Homeland Security, which control ICE, says that it has actually asked for less money for the next financial year:

The ICE report shows that the goal for next year is to deport 1 million people. But the agency has asked for less money in fiscal year 2027 than it did in fiscal year 2026.

ICE recently lost its boss after Trump fired nativist horror Kristi Noem and replaced her with another fascist tool, the preposterously named Markwayne Mullin. As the Canary wrote at the time:

Turns out that using a masked secret police to murder and kidnap people to concentration camps makes you unpopular, even in America.

As such, Noem has made a convenient sacrifice to make Trump look like he’s relenting. Meanwhile, nothing will change under Markwayne Mullin, save maybe that ICE will get a little more cautious, a little more covert in their actions.

There is no number of deportations which will sate American fascism’s thirst for human suffering. Trump may be distracted by his failed war against Iran, but sooner or later his Sauron gaze will turn back to the US and his attention will return to the ignoble task of kicking out immigrants left, right and centre. We hope the American people will continue to fight back, as they have in Minnesota and elsewhere.

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By Joe Glenton

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