The number of deportees in 2025 is lower than that of the first year of his first term as president. In 2017, the Trump administration sent 167,064 Mexicans to Mexico.
In his first four-year term, Trump sent 191,594 to Mexico, that is, 524 per day.
Despite the executive orders signed against immigration, declaring an emergency at the border and the tightening of immigration policy, every month of Trump’s first year there were fewer arrests than the last months of the Biden administration.
Before taking office as president of the United States, Trump warned that he would implement a mass deportation plan, which, according to estimates by JD Vance, vice president of the United States, involved the departure of one million per year.
“As soon as I take the oath of office, we will begin the largest deportation operation in the history of our country,” Trump said before taking office.
In this first year on the border between Mexico and the United States, 165,704 Mexicans have been detained by US authorities.
According to the Secretary of the Interior, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, during this first year, not all the returns of Mexicans have been expulsions. Around 13,000 decided to leave that country.
During this first year, around 170 raids have been carried out in the United States, targeting more than 225,000 people.
