ICE sets goal of 1 million deportations per year

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has now made its bold ambition official. Its budget report, sent to Congress on Wednesday, announced plans to deport 1 million people each year in 2026 and 2027. The agency says it has the officers and resources to meet this goal. The agency carried out 442,637 removals in 2025, about 171,000 more than in 2024 under Joe Biden. A 2018 Yale study estimated 16 to 29 million undocumented immigrants were already in the U.S., and millions more entered during the Biden years. Even in perfect conditions, it would take decades to deport them all. But Bible prophecy warns this will not go perfectly. Instead, the “strangers” in the land will bring destruction and burn our cities with fire (Deuteronomy 28:52; Isaiah 1:7).