BY THE NUMBERS: Trump’s Record With ICE is Much Better Than Obama’s

Democrats and the media act like ICE was just created last year, under Trump. In truth, they’ve been around for more than 25 years.

What is even more important, is that if you look at the numbers, ICE has a much better record under Trump than it did under Obama. There have been far fewer mistakes under Trump. The left doesn’t care because for them, this is just an excuse to protest Trump.

For them, Obama could do no wrong and Trump can do no right.

But look at this report from the New York Post:

How Trump’s ICE enforcement record blows Obama’s out of the water— by a lot

Let’s set the baseline: Between the president’s Jan. 20, 2025, inauguration and the end of November, Trump’s administration arrested an extraordinary total of 595,000 illegal aliens and deported 605,000.

The 170 ICE-detained US citizens cited in Stanage’s diatribe included about 130 arrested for interfering with or assaulting officers, according to the left-leaning ProPublica — justifiable under any reading of the law.

Only about 40 or so of those who were detained claimed to be US citizens accidentally or erroneously arrested by ICE, and just half of those people were held for more than a day; most were released in a few hours.

Any error is serious, but 40 mistakes out of 595,000 arrests amounts to an error rate of just 0.0067% — roughly one wrongful detention for every 14,925 arrests.

Compare that with the final two years of President Barack Obama’s administration.

In fiscal years 2015 and 2016, ICE recorded 263 mistaken arrests, 54 mistaken detentions (book-ins), and four mistaken removals.

During those two years, ICE made a mere 239,645 arrests, meaning the 54 mistaken detentions alone produced an Obama error rate of 0.0225% — about one mistake for every 4,444 arrests.

Overall, the error rate under Obama was 3.36 times higher than under Trump.

People are noticing the obvious double standard.

Barack Obama Deportation Record

• 3 Million Formal Removals
• 2.2 Million Returns
• 75% Received NO DUE PROCESS
• 56 Deaths in ICE Custody
• Awarded Tom Homan with highest honor
• Faced 0 Protests

Why the Double Standard with Trump? pic.twitter.com/Nl9DvKJu83

— Alec Lace (@AlecLace) January 19, 2026

Barack Obama’s ICE chief received an award for 920,000 removals.

Donald Trump’s ICE chief was called a Nazi.

It’s the same person: Tom Homan.

In 2012, Obama deported 409,000 people.

In 2025, Trump deported 290,000 people.

The difference is mainstream media brainwashing. pic.twitter.com/kFgGmZKFa5

— Mayra Flores (@MayraFlores4TX) January 20, 2026

Weird how nobody had an issue with ICE during the Obama era. It’s almost as though people have been programmed to cry about anything that happens during Trump’s presidency. pic.twitter.com/1buNFd8C1p

— CAMILLE PAGLIA STAN ✨ FAN ACCOUNT (@Provokatov) January 20, 2026

The media knows all of this, yet they pretend they don’t. And we all know why.