Q&A – What’s The Net Decline in Illegal Immigrants Under Trump? - Driven By Braman Motorcars
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Today’s Entry: @brianmuddradio Thanks for providing the facts on illegal immigration. What’s the net decline in illegal immigration per day? How does it compare with Biden?
Bottom Line: It’s safe to say that the most impressive accomplishment of President Trump’s first 100 days was his work on securing our borders, ending the flow of illegal immigrants into this country, and his administration's work to detain and deport illegal immigrants. As I’ve recently shared, the level of activity through the administration's first 100 days looks like this... ICE arrests of illegal immigrants are up 621% over the Biden administration. In fact, under President Trump, ICE had detained nearly as many illegal immigrants within the first 50 days as they did in the entire prior year. That includes a 120% increase in ICE detentions of criminal illegal immigrants and a 222% increase in arrests of terrorist gang members. At the same time any border related/illegal immigration statistic you’ll see shows declines in attempted and illegal activity by 95% to 99% over what we had with Biden’s open border policies. Those are huge percentages, but also importantly, as it pertains to today’s questions, there are also huge numbers behind those percentages as well.
Let’s start with a breakout of how many illegal entrants were either allowed into the country under the Biden administration or were “gottaways” from the administration.
From January 20th of 2024 thru April 29th of 2024:
- Approximately 184,000 border crossers were processed and allowed into the interior
- Approximately 180,000 “gottaways”
For an estimated total of 364,000 illegal immigrants entering the country or 3,640 per day.
As for deportations during the same time under the Biden administration, they totaled an approximate 89,000, or 890 deportations per day. If that’s sounds higher than you thought by the way, that’s because they counted border removals. In other words, the minority of the border crossers the administration turned back. If we count only those removed from the interior that number drops to about 12,900, or only 129 per day.
That means during the average day a year ago a net total of 3,500+ illegal immigrants were added to the US each day (and these numbers are mostly consistent for what we saw during the entirety of Biden’s four years). So fast forward to what’s happened this year.
From January 20th of 2025 thru April 29th of 2025:
- 9 border crossers were processed and allowed into the interior
- Approximately 3,800 “gottaways”
For an estimated total of 3809 illegal immigrants entering the country or 38 per day.
As for deportations during President Trump's first 100 days, they totaled an approximate 139,000 or 1,390 deportations per day with an estimated 30,000 interior removals, or about 300 per day.
When you put the whole ball of wax together it looks like this. While the Biden administration was busy allowing a net new 3,500+ illegal immigrants into the United States per day, President Trump over the same time has been removing a net 262 illegal immigrants per day. A number that would be far higher if not for the legal intervention of the Left and various stays by courts that have slowed the Trump administration deportation efforts down.
The other wild card in this conversation is the impact of self-deportations, which the administration has been encouraging through the CBP One app, and a marketing campaign led by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. We know there have been at least 5,000, or another 50+ per day, that was the last report for the number who’d used the app to self-deport, but actual totals are likely to be significantly higher. And that should be a theme in President Trump’s next 100 days and for the duration of his administration. The numbers will likely continue to climb from these early levels as legal challenges are overcome and larger scale ICE operations, like last week’s Tidal Wave in Florida and this weekend’s raid in Colorado Springs take place.