ICE Nears 200K Removals as Funding and Coast Guard Flights Fuel Nationwide Deportation Surge

ICE deported nearly 200,000 people in the first seven months after President Trump returned to office, contributing to almost 350,000 total removals when including CBP, Coast Guard and self-deportations. Reporting and linked insights show a funding-driven expansion (≈$75B to ICE through 2029) and increased use of Coast Guard and other air assets and regional staging hubs, indicating an accelerating, multi-agency enforcement surge. Legal injunctions, resource constraints, and detention overcrowding complicate the expansion but do not yet appear to have halted it.