President Donald Trump's administration is on track to deport about 660,000 people over the past year, a new report released Thursday by the Migration Policy Institute shows, as arrests ramp up across the country, the Associated Press reported.

The report shows deportations increased from 620,000 during the first year of Trump's second administration. The numbers fall short of previous highs in the early 2000s and fail to meet the administration's promise, made when it received billions from Congress, that the money would allow for 1 million deportations annually, AP reported.

Bloomberg Law, reporting the same MPI analysis, said immigration officials are deporting more people who were initially arrested in the interior of the country and who have been in the US for years, while the largest share of those deported were still arrested at the border.

MPI's analysis found DHS carried out 980,000 deportations during the first 18 months of the second Trump administration. The last fiscal year's estimated 660,000 is a 26% increase from the yearly average from 2021 to 2024 under President Joe Biden, but well below the 1.86 million recorded in 2000 under President Bill Clinton, according to AP's summary of the report.

The report is based on publicly available data obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, and comes after the administration in January 2025 stopped publicly releasing similar figures compiled by DHS, AP said. Congress mandated in 2019 that ICE release deportation data, but the agency has not updated its dashboard since January 2025, Bloomberg Law reported.

"We're releasing many fewer numbers than the department has historically released," Marc Rosenblum, a visiting senior fellow at MPI who until July led DHS's Office of Homeland Security Statistics, told reporters, according to Bloomberg Law. DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the missing data and updated figures, Bloomberg Law said.

For Punjabi and Indian families in the US, the report is the clearest independent count so far of the enforcement drive: deportations are rising and reaching deeper into the interior, even as the total remains below both the White House target and historic highs. The figures are MPI estimates from official data, not a DHS-published total.