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More than 100,000 illegal migrants were reportedly arrested during the first two month of President Donald Trump's administration, a Department of Homeland Security source confirmed to the New York Post on Monday (March 31).
ICE officials were reported to have made 113,000 arrests and carried out more than 100,000 since the president's inauguration on January 20, the source claimed.
“He’s doing what he was voted in to do. Point blank!” the source said.
In March, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that more than 20,000 illegal migrants were arrested during Trump's first month in office, a 627% increase from the 33,000 made during the final year of former President Joe Biden's administration in 2024.
"President Trump and this Administration are saving lives every day because of the actions we are taking to secure the border and deport illegal alien criminals. Hundreds of thousands of criminals were let into this country illegally. We are sending them home, and they will never be allowed to return," Noem said at the time.
Trump, who made illegal immigration a key talking point during his successful re-election campaign, declared a national emergency at the southern border during his first day in office on January 20. The president announced that Tom Homan, a former acting ICE director, would serve as a "border czar" for his new administration in a post shared on his Truth Social account on November 10.