Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportations remained low in fiscal year 2022 while arrests nearly doubled from last year — largely driven by people who recently crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, according to new end-of-year ICE data.
Large numbers of migrants and asylum seekers arriving at the border and continued rapid expulsions under Title 42 has forced ICE to spend more time assisting border officials rather than internal arrests and deportations.
Throughout the year, more than a thousand ICE officials were deployed to the southwest border amid a record year for border crossings, ICE officials told reporters. Even ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations office zeroed in on border-related efforts, deploying 600 special agents to the southwest border and 300 more to international locations to assist efforts to crack down on smuggling networks. ICE made 142,750 arrests in FY 2022 — nearly double the 74,000 arrests made last fiscal year.
The number of people arrested with criminal histories was around the same as last year, while there was a surge of arrests of “other immigration violators” — driven by recent border crossers.
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