Documented
- Military-supported removal-flight activity in early 2025.
- The Project Homecoming proclamation and its departure-assistance directions.
- A documented CBP Home process separating intent from confirmed exit.
TRUMP II / IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT
Deportations.
Voluntary departures.
Separate counts.
Actual removal-flight imagery, the departure-assistance policy, and the numbers the administration claims.
U.S. Air Force / Tech. Sgt. Kimberly Nagle. Source photograph ↗
01 / THE ACTION
Military support.
A documented flight.
Official removal-flight footage; includes people in restraints. Loading the player connects to DVIDS; use its playback controls. Open the official video page ↗
FORT BLISS, TEXAS · FEBRUARY 14, 2025
Official removal-flight footage.
The U.S. Army video documents military airlift support for an ICE removal flight at Biggs Airfield. It was published on February 27, 2025.
Video: Sgt. Kimberly Villigran / U.S. Army. The Tucson photograph shows a separate operation. Neither is footage of the CBP Home voluntary-departure program.
Official source ↗These images document specific operational activity. They do not establish the national departure total, an individual’s criminal history, or a reduction in crime.
02 / THE POLICY
Project Homecoming.
Proclamation signed · May 9, 2025The proclamation directs departure assistance through CBP Home and other processes, government-funded flights, help with travel documents, and an exit bonus. It also directs an expansion of enforcement for people who do not depart.
These are documented policy directions. Their existence does not establish how many people completed departure, the current incentive amount, or the program’s net savings.
Official source ↗03 / WHAT GETS COUNTED
An application is not a confirmed exit.
CBP’s June 25, 2025 assessment describes separate functions for departure intent and exit confirmation.
- 01
Intent submitted
A person tells CBP Home they plan to leave. This is a request for processing, not proof of completed travel.
- 02
Exit self-reported
After leaving, a person can report an exit. The app checks location outside the United States and collects identity information and a live selfie.
- 03
Exit confirmed
CBP compares the selfie with an existing source photo. A successful match records a biometrically confirmed exit; a failed match does not create that record.
This describes the documented CBP Home process, not a count of all program participants or all self-departures. Official source ↗
“Voluntary departure” also has a legal meaning.
EOIR’s January 2022 guide describes a distinct immigration-court procedure allowing eligible people to leave at their own expense within a set time. That category, CBP Home participation and the administration’s broad “self-deportation” claim should not be treated as interchangeable counts.
Official source ↗04 / READ THE NUMBERS
Different claims.
Different counting rules.
| Published / claimed count | What the statement counts | How to read it |
|---|---|---|
| September 9, 2026More than 3 million | Migrants who left during Trump’s second term Official source ↗ | The release supplies no deportation / voluntary-departure breakdown and links this claim to outside reporting. |
| January 20, 2026More than 2.6 million | Deportations and voluntary self-departures combined Official source ↗ | The year-one review combines two kinds of departure. It does not establish 2.6 million completed government deportations. |
| January 20, 20262 million | Self-deportations claimed in the year-one review Official source ↗ | Not identified as two million CBP Home-confirmed exits. The release gives no reproducible estimation or deduplication method. |
| January 20, 2026More than 650,000 | Arrests, detentions and deportations — mixed wording Official source ↗ | Not a standalone completed-deportation count. A person may pass through several enforcement stages. |
No sum. No growth rate. No presidential ranking.
The January figures overlap in scope; arrest, detention and removal may describe stages involving the same person. The January and September totals are rounded claims with different reporting windows. Subtracting them would not establish additional confirmed departures.
05 / THE ASSESSMENT
What is established?
Still to reconcile
- Completed removals, other departures and estimated self-departures on one stated period.
- The methodology behind the broad national self-departure claim and any overlap between categories.
- Comparable prior-administration totals, full costs and attributable outcomes.
National totals remain attributed claims in this edition. The linked statements do not provide a reproducible, matched administrative series for the comparison. Border apprehensions and border releases are measured separately in our border record ↗.
READ THE ORIGINALS
The evidence behind this record.
Reviewed September 30, 2026. Each source retains its own date and scope. This is a selected record, not a live national deportation counter.
Official sourceWhite House: Results for the American People in Under Two Years (opens in a new tab)September 9, 2026 · Border section: claim that more than three million migrants left during Trump II
Official sourceWhite House: 365 Wins in 365 Days (opens in a new tab)January 20, 2026 · Items 2, 3 and 5: combined departures, mixed enforcement count and self-deportations
Official sourcePresidential proclamation: Establishing Project Homecoming (opens in a new tab)May 9, 2025 · Sections 1–3: departure assistance, exit bonus and enforcement direction
Official sourceDHS/CBP: CBP Home Privacy Impact Assessment (opens in a new tab)June 25, 2025 · DHS/CBP/PIA-084 · printed pp. 1–4: intent, exit reporting and biometric confirmation
Official sourceDOJ / EOIR: Information on Voluntary Departure (opens in a new tab)Updated January 2022 · Printed p. 1: the distinct immigration-court procedure
Official sourceU.S. Air Force: CBP removal-flight support at Tucson (opens in a new tab)January 23, 2025 · posted January 24 · Photo: Tech. Sgt. Kimberly Nagle · VIRIN 250123-F-XR514-1043
Official sourceU.S. Army: Removal flight conducted at Fort Bliss (opens in a new tab)February 14, 2025 · posted February 27 · Video: Sgt. Kimberly Villigran · 1 minute 26 seconds
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