The number of arrests and deportations of migrants increased in fiscal year 2022 compared to 2021, when detentions due to the pandemic plummeted, according to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE).
During fiscal year 2022, which runs from October 1, 2021, to September 30, 2022, ICE agents apprehended 142,750 immigrants, which is nearly double (93%) the number in 2021, when they were arrested. to 74,082 foreigners.
Nearly one in three migrants arrested in 2022 (46,396) had a criminal record, ICE detailed in a report.
Arrestees with priors averaged more than 4 charges and convictions per person, including more than 20,000 assault charges or convictions, 5,500 weapons-related crimes, 1,500 homicide-related crimes and 1,100 kidnapping.
Deportations in 2022 also registered a 22% increase, with 72,177 migrants sent to more than 150 countries.
Agents from the Office of Detention and Deportation (ERO), an ICE unit, also collaborated with the transport of nearly 250,000 migrants, including transfers within the United States and expulsions by Title 42, a regulation that allows the expulsion of undocumented immigrants for sanitary reasons.
The 2022 group of deportees included 2,667 gang-linked migrants, 55 suspected terrorists, 7 human rights violators and 74 foreign fugitives wanted by their governments for crimes including homicide, rape, terrorism and kidnapping, ICE said in a statement. release.
ICE Acting Director Tae Johnson said the agency will continue to “safeguard national security and public safety while living our core values.”
While the number of deportations increased in fiscal year 2022, the figure is the lowest recorded by ICE in its nearly 20-year history.
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