ICE deportations rose just slightly in FY 2022 as the agency was forced to divert significant resources to the southern border, its annual report released Friday said.
Meanwhile, arrests rose significantly in FY 2022, with the agency’s Enforcement and Removal Operations making 142,750 administrative arrests, compared to just 74,082 in FY21. In FY 20 there were 103,603 arrests and in FY19 there were 143,099 arrests.
However, the report says that the increase in arrests can be attributed primarily due to the increase in Border Patrol encounters at the southern border -- which hit 2.3 million encounters in FY2022 -- and limited ICE resources being diverted to assist its fellow DHS agency in processing those migrant encounters into the interior.
"We detailed thousands of law enforcement officers to the southwest border to investigate human smuggling and human trafficking and assisted with processing of migrants into ICE's Alternatives to Detention program to help ensure migrants being released by CBP were meeting their reporting and immigration obligations," he said.
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