ICE expects to deport more than 600,000 undocumented immigrants by the end of the year, President Trump's border czar Tom Homan said at Axios' Future of Defense Summit on Wednesday.
Why it matters: The estimate comes as the Trump administration touted that approximately 1.6 million undocumented immigrants have "voluntarily" self-deported, and another 400,000 were deported in the first 250 days of Trump's second term. • "If you're in the United States illegally, you're not off the table," Homan told Axios' Brittany Gibson in Washington D.C. "If we find you, we're going to arrest you."
Context: Homan, who retired less than a year into his first stint as acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director during Trump's first administration, returned as the White House's border czar to en