▲ A rally protesting immigration enforcement held in New York, U.S.
The Washington Post reported that 980,000 immigrants have been deported from the United States during the 18 months since the launch of the second Donald Trump administration in January of last year.
Citing a report authored by Mark Rosenblum, the former head of statistics at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) who stepped down last July, the newspaper shared these figures in a report on the 22nd local time.
The deportation tally includes both formal "removals" and "returns" by the DHS.
Formal removal is a measure where an order of removal is officially issued to forcibly expel individuals from the U.S., which carries administrative and criminal penalties upon re-entry.
Returns refer to a method where individuals leave the U.S. without a deportation order through voluntary departure, return, or withdrawal of an application for admission.
According to the report, when limited strictly to formal removals, the annual average under the Trump administration stood at 380,000, which is lower than the 392,000 recorded during Barack Obama's first term.
The report added that annual formal removals reached an all-time high of 432,000 in fiscal year 2013 during the Obama administration.
President Trump, a proponent of hardline immigration policies, had pledged to deport 1 million immigrants every year.
The Washington Post explained that it has been difficult to grasp the actual situation as the Trump administration has not made detailed deportation statistics public, and noted that some hardline immigration advocates are criticizing President Trump for being lukewarm on deporting undocumented immigrants.
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