March 15 2024
New York Post: "The Biden administration wants to carry out less deportations of immigrants in fiscal year 2025, despite the continuing crisis — which set an all-time record of 371,000 people encountered at the border in December.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has set a target of just 125,000 deportations in the next fiscal year, according to an agency budget request.
That number is lower than the 142,000 removals conducted in fiscal year 2023, which runs from Oct. 1 to September 30, and less than half of the 267,258 individuals deported in fiscal year 2019, according to federal data.
The number of anticipated deportations in fiscal year 2025 would be equivalent to just 6% of the more than 2.4 million people Border Patrol encountered attempting to cross the southern border in fiscal year 2023."