DHS Touts Record ICE Arrests and Deportations in Fiscal 2026
The Department of Homeland Security announced record ICE arrests and deportations for fiscal 2026, according to Fox News.
Fox News reported that the Department of Homeland Security has touted record arrests and deportations by ICE in fiscal 2026. According to the outlet's report, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced the figures, and the department characterized the deportations as the highest ICE deportations in history. The full account appears in a Fox News report.
Fox News reported that arrests in fiscal 2026 exceeded those of three Biden fiscal years combined. The report's summary does not give the number of arrests or deportations, so the scale of the figures cannot be checked from that account alone.
Fox News also reported that Mullin said the agency has been "unleashed," a word that appears in the report's headline. The account does not describe what the secretary meant by the term or identify the specific policies behind the results.
Fox News is the only outlet whose coverage of the announcement is available to The Federal Chronicle for this report, so the account rests on a single source. The summary does not include responses from ICE or from Mullin's critics, and it does not say whether the figures have been independently verified.
The comparison is with three fiscal years under the Biden administration, which the summary identifies by name without giving figures for those years. The summary also does not say which measures of arrests the comparison covers, or whether deportation totals were included in that comparison.
Sources: Fox News: DHS touts highest ICE deportations in history, as Mullin says agency has been ‘unleashed’.