Between February and April 2026, an average of 1,286 people per day were deported from the country, a rate similar to that observed since the summer of 2025 (with a peak of 1,456 in January of this year). Between October 1, 2025, and April 1, 2026, more than 230,000 people were thus returned to the border, a considerable number, but still far from the White House’s target of 1 million per year.
David Venturella, the former vice president of Geo Group, with whom the administration has a contract for its prisons (but conflicts of interest no longer frightens Trumpetists and Maga supporters), will take over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the end of May. He prefers to keep a low profile. Perhaps the methods will change, but the deportation goals for this crappy ICE remain the same. It will just have to make them more effective. The boss of this boss also changed in March. It’s no longer Kristi Noem but Markwayne Mullin, the new Secretary of Homeland Security.
Donald Trump and his cronies think that if police operations stop making noise and generating headlines and frontpages in newspapers, citizen mobilization for their neighbors will weaken. They are all sorely mistaken!