Comment by bitshiftfaced

> I was extremely surprised to find out that based on ICE’s annual reports, which are still up, Biden’s administration deported far more people than Trump’s

There were also more deportations the year before Trump's first term than the year of his first term.

Consider the chart of border encounters. This one shows the past through 2023 [0] and in 2024 we had 2.1 million encounters at the southern border [1]. It appears that deportations are a function of border encounters, and border encounters increased substantially during Biden's administration.

0. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/29/us/illegal-bo...

1. https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/fy2024-us-border-encoun....