This week, Homeland Security officials said that immigration and customs enforcement carried out more than 32,000 arrests in the first 50 days of the Trump administration.

According to data released by Customs and Border Protection, that includes over 14,000 migrants with criminal convictions, nearly 10,000 with pending criminal charges, and over 8,700,

they call immigration violators. Those numbers include the deportation of a 10-year-old U.S. citizen

girl recovering from brain cancer after her undocumented parents were arrested last month.

Our White House correspondent Laura Barone Lopez has been covering all this

and joins us now. So Laura, let's take a look at those arrest numbers, those deportation numbers,

and put them in context for us. What should we understand? Right. So first on the arrests,

they have increased, especially in the interior of the United States compared to under President

Biden. And of the more than 32,000 arrests

made within those first 50 days, a hundred and, sorry, excuse me, 1,155 were suspected gang members,

39 were known or suspected terrorists. And I want to hit on that number again, Omna,

the 8,718, they were non-criminal

migrants. That means that those migrants have not been charged with a crime at all. Now, when it

comes to deportations, President Trump has not deported as many migrants as Biden compared to

this time last year. So when you break it down under President Trump, the deportations are lower

at an average of 600 per day. And under President Biden, the deportations in 2024 averaged about

750 per day. Now, part of the reason that they're lower is due to the fact that border activity

is lower. There's fewer crossings right now, given the policies the Trump administration has put

in effect.

And there aren't as many immigration judges.

And it appears as though the Trump administration is not necessarily going to add more immigration

judges anytime soon, Omna.

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