The Department of Homeland Security has set a record for the number of deportation flights in a single month with a total of 296 in May 2026, according to a new report from the Washington Examiner.
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DEPORTATION FLIGHTS HIT A RECORD HIGH.
Under @POTUS Trump and @SecMullinDHS, we’ll never give up our mission to arrest and remove criminal illegal aliens from our nation.
If you’re here illegally: LEAVE NOW. If you don’t, you will be found, arrested, and deported.…
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) June 22, 2026
The Trump administration has chartered approximately 3,000 deportation flights since retaking power in January of 2025. The latest numbers show that nearly 10 percent of those flights occurred in May 2026 alone, signaling a huge ramp-up in the mass deportation agenda.
The news of record-setting performance comes after just two months after Sec. Markwayne Mullin was confirmed as the head of DHS. Under his leadership, the Department has managed to achieve an astounding average of 2,400 deportations per day. Immigration officials have signaled that those numbers will only increase with greater funding achieved by President Donald Trump and his Republican allies that resulted in 10,000 federal agents working to combat the problem.
Pretty interesting things we are seeing coming out of the Mullin’s deportation style.
It’s more quiet, but it seems to be doing pretty good on removals. More analysis below pic.twitter.com/p42wqgzEpc
— America First Insight (@AF_Insight) June 20, 2026
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Watch: Tom Homan just told me deportations will go “a lot higher” this year with 10,000 agents on and fresh funding.
“You’re going to see a lot more arrest activity throughout the whole country,” he says, citing new money from the reconciliation package and the Big Beautiful… pic.twitter.com/xq91HNNquj
— Iris Tao (@IrisTaoTV) June 22, 2026
Over 3 million illegal aliens have either self-deported or have been involuntarily removed by the Trump administration since taking office. The focus on closing the border and removing illegal aliens present in the United States has allowed for the administration to achieve the first net-negative immigration project in 50 years.
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