The Trump administration has arrested and deported a shocking number of illegal migrants – including thousands of known ‘scammers’ – since the president took office in January.
A total of 65,682 illegal immigrants were removed within Trump’s first 100 days, a Department of Homeland Security official revealed to the Daily Mail.
That is almost all of the 66,463 arrested over that period.
An official said five percent of the arrested individuals have criminal charges or convictions.
That figure includes 498 migrants with murder allegations and 1,329 who were tied to sex offenses. Another 2,288 were suspected gang members.
The Daily Mail is also first to exclusively report that 7,120 illegal migrants have been alleged to have participated in benefit fraud schemes, including marriage fraud.
That’s according to data compiled by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which conducted a screening of over 3,568 social media accounts.
USCIS spokesman Matthew Tragesser said that Trump is putting a stop to ‘disastrous Biden-era ‘humanitarian’ policies that invited fraud and allowed criminal aliens to legally live and work in our communities.’
He went on to say that USCIS facilitated arrests of ‘criminals attempting to gain immigration benefits’ and is ensuring that every migrant is being registered in the U.S.
‘Aliens, immigration attorneys and non-government organizations take note: the days of exploiting our immigration system are over. Aliens who want to live and work in America need to do it legally or get out.’
President Donald Trump has ordered DHS Sec. Kristi Noem to increase the speed of arrests and deportations
A new Daily Mail/J.L. Partners poll found that despite immigration successes, Trump is seeing a drop in his approval rating for the first time.
When asked to pick his biggest mistake, voters overwhelmingly said ‘tariffs’, while the ‘border’ was seen as the greatest success.
In the poll of 1,006 registered voters conducted between April 23 and April 28, and covering a wide range of topics, disapproval of Trump stood at 55 percent.
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The nine-point slip in his approval appears largely due the administration’s tariffs and the ensuing reversal on those economic threats.
Voters seem to have doubts over whether Trump has a plan when it comes to a trade war.
‘Our last poll shocked DC as it showed Trump at his most popular ever after his tariffs announcement. But now, for the first time, we can say the Trump honeymoon period is over,’ J.L. Partners pollster James Johnson told the Daily Mail.
The Trump administration promoted its immigration crackdown on Monday by lining the White House driveway with dozens of mugshots of migrants who have been arrested.
The Daily Mail first obtained information on a series of deportations back in February as the Trump administration started enforcing its strict border policies.
Those individuals included Ivan Oramas, 61, is a citizen of Cuba with a rap sheet including convictions for sexual battery and aggravated assault.
Americans said the border and immigration were clearly the biggest success of the first 100 days. The White House put mugshots of migrants who had been arrested on the White House drive on Monday
His sexual battery case caused serious injury, according to his charges in the file.
ICE Houston nabbed Oramas in February, enforcing a deportation order first handed down in October 2003—21 years overdue.
Santos Maradiaga-Villalta, a 40-year-old alien from Honduras, has convictions for smuggling aliens into the U.S. He was arrested recently by ICE in Phoenix. His first deportation order dates back to January 2006, a 19-year lapse in action.
ICE Phoenix recently arrested Santos Maradiaga-Villalta, 40, Honduran national who was issued a removal order in 2006, when he was then 21. He had prior convictions for alien smuggling
Ivan Fabian Oramas, 61, was originally ordered to be deported in October 2003, over 21 years ago. Above is his mugshot from a Florida state sexual offender database
Now, as Trump's administration continues ramping up its crackdown on illegal immigration, these long-evading, at large fugitives are getting taken in after decades of delays.
Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem announced that in conjunction with Border Czar Tom Homan, immigration officials have already apprehended over 20,000 at large illegal aliens since Trump was sworn in.
'That's a 627% increase in monthly arrests compared to just 33,000 at large arrests under Biden for ALL of last year,' she wrote in a post on X.
In another post on the platform she bragged that DHS has slashed border encounters from 15,000 a day under Joe Biden to just 200 under Trump.
It's a '15-year low,' she wrote.
Among the other criminals that surfaced in this week's federal data were Guatemalan national Alexis Aquirre-Velasquez, 37, who was ordered out of the U.S. 12 years ago in February 2013.
He was charged with four counts of indecent liberty with a child and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The president has pledged to purge the U.S. of its 'most dangerous' unlawful immigrants through a sweeping deportation strategy that would result in the 'largest deportation effort' ever carried out.
Recently, White House officials revealed to DailyMail.com that north of 6,000 migrants were deported in Trump's first two weeks.
ICE Atlanta arrested Alexis Aquirre-Velasquez, 37, a Guatemalan national. Authorities given him a final removal date in 2013, though he was just arrested recently. He was roaming freely and had convictions of indecent liberty with a child
ICE Sioux Falls arrested Hector Mendoza-Lopez, 22, of El Salvador for false statements while purchasing a firearm
A migrant arriving at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after he illegally entered the U.S.
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It comes after Caleb Vitello, the former acting director of ICE was reassigned earlier this month.
It came as deportations of migrants have lagged expectations, a senior Trump official said.
A spokesman told the Wall Street Journal he was 'actually being elevated so he is no longer in an administrative role.'
Instead, he would be 'overseeing all field and enforcement operations: finding, arresting, and deporting illegal aliens.'
He was the third senior ICE official to be removed this month.