Federal immigration authorities have been busy behind the scenes since January, ramping up enforcement efforts across the country.

Arrests are up. Deportation flights are leaving more frequently. Local law enforcement partnerships once abandoned are back in full force. And now, the numbers are in.

According to a senior Department of Homeland Security official, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have made 113,000 arrests and carried out “north of” 100,000 deportations since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January.

It’s a significant benchmark for an administration that promised a return to strict border enforcement and an aggressive approach to removing those in the country illegally.

“He’s doing what he was voted in to do. Point blank!” an ICE source said to The New York Post.

Jacumba Hot Springs border wall in California fortifies the US-Mexico boundary, addressing security concerns and managing immigration in the region

Since President Trump’s return to the White House in January 2025, immigration enforcement has ramped up dramatically — with deportations surging and illegal border crossings plummeting.

While exact figures remain unclear regarding how many detainees are convicted criminals, where they’re from, or what their legal status is, sources say most are being sent back to Mexico. What is clear: illegal entries at the southern border have collapsed to levels not seen in decades. March saw a jaw-dropping low in crossings, a shift DHS insiders are calling “the Trump effect.”

“Illegal entries into the United States are no longer a backdoor way to getting status,” one source said to The Post. In March, just under 7,000 illegal migrants were caught — a 94% drop from the 137,000 who crossed under former President Biden in the same month last year. February numbers were similarly historic, with just 8,300 crossings, the lowest in at least 25 years.

President Donald J. Trump meets U.S. Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott as he walks along the completed 200th mile of new border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Yuma, Arizona – June 23, 2020.

Migrants are now thinking twice. “Scared there are consequences now,” said a DHS source. “Everyone who is caught is charged and does time.”

Border sources confirmed that most of the illegal crossings were happening in the San Diego and El Paso sectors—two areas that became ground zero in the Biden administration’s border crisis.

Behind this crackdown are sweeping policy moves: more troops at the border, an asylum system that’s now shut off to illegal entrants, and the revival of a centuries-old law — the 1798 Alien Enemies Act — to deport certain foreign nationals without trial.

The Trump administration is also taking aim at sanctuary cities, ramping up federal raids and using data-sharing through fusion centers to get around local laws that shield illegal immigrants.

One of the most controversial moves so far came when federal agents deported 238 Venezuelans to El Salvador, accusing them of gang ties under the Alien Enemies Act.

Over the weekend, the Trump administration deported 17 individuals, alleged to be members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and the Salvadoran gang MS-13, to El Salvador’s maximum-security prison, the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT). This occurred despite a federal judge’s temporary restraining order blocking such deportations.

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