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DHS reports nearly 3 million noncitizen departures, including 675,000+ deportations, in first year

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Official DHS/ICE records or aggregated federal migration statistics confirming the counts of departures, self-deportations, and deportations.

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This is a DHS press release summarizing the department’s reported accomplishments during President Trump’s first year back in office (January 20, 2025–January 2026) and outlining priorities for 2026. The release highlights claimed declines in southwest border encounters and increased removals, criminal enforcement figures from ICE and CBP, Coast Guard drug seizures, FEMA fiscal recoveries and reforms, expanded training and hiring across DHS components, new counter-drone procurement efforts, and cybersecurity and event-security preparations for America250 and the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Numbers and policy changes are presented as DHS assertions and planned actions.
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DHS’s press release does contain the quoted sentence claiming nearly 3 million noncitizens left the U.S., including an estimated 2.2 million self-deportations and more than 675,000 deportations. However, this aggregation mixes an unverifiable ‘self‑deportation’ estimate with agency removal/expulsion counts and does not cite underlying datasets; official ICE and CBP published statistics (ICE removals dashboards; CBP Nationwide Encounters) do not provide a clear, corroborating total of 2.2 million voluntary departures for the Jan 20, 2025–Jan 20, 2026 period, nor a single authoritative 675,000+ “deportations” figure for that interval. Verdict: Close — DHS did make the claim, but the numbers are presented without transparent sourcing and do not match independently verifiable, component-level public data as a single reconciled total.

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  1. Scheduled follow-up · Mar 31, 2026
  2. Completion due · Mar 31, 2026
  3. Update · Jan 21, 2026, 03:01 AMClose
    DHS’s press release does contain the quoted sentence claiming nearly 3 million noncitizens left the U.S., including an estimated 2.2 million self-deportations and more than 675,000 deportations. However, this aggregation mixes an unverifiable ‘self‑deportation’ estimate with agency removal/expulsion counts and does not cite underlying datasets; official ICE and CBP published statistics (ICE removals dashboards; CBP Nationwide Encounters) do not provide a clear, corroborating total of 2.2 million voluntary departures for the Jan 20, 2025–Jan 20, 2026 period, nor a single authoritative 675,000+ “deportations” figure for that interval. Verdict: Close — DHS did make the claim, but the numbers are presented without transparent sourcing and do not match independently verifiable, component-level public data as a single reconciled total.
  4. Original article · Jan 20, 2026
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