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President Donald Trump’s deputies have tripled the monthly number of judicial deportation orders, enabling officials to exceed their recent deportation records during the next few months.
“They are plowing through these cases like a freaking snowplow in Utah snow,” said Andrew Arthur, a former immigration-court judge who now works with the Center for Immigration Studies. “They’ve dropped the backlog from nearly 4 million down to less than 3.5 million,” he added.
The Justice Department’s immigration-court judges ordered the removal — or deportation — of 79,000 migrants in June, up from roughly 25,000 in December 2024 when President Joe Biden’s deputies were pulling migrants across U.S. legal barriers.
Migrants with deportation orders can be quickly arrested and deported because they have few legal options to stay in the United States. Under prior administrations, the deportation orders were routinely ignored by both migrants and deportation agencies, Arthur told Breitbart News.
The deportation orders were likely higher in July, and will likely be even higher in August, paving the way for even more deportations in early 2027.
Just 1.9 percent of the court cases provide migrants with some legal status, down from roughly 25 percent in Biden’s term.
The June data was shared by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), which is sympathetic to migration and migrants. The site noted that the administration’s courts have a backlog of 3.2 million migrants after Biden’s migration boom. (Read more: Breitbart News, 8/5/2026) (Archive)