Incoming border czar Tom Homan said that the Biden administration’s most recent deportation numbers might appear to be high, but they don’t tell the whole story of illegal immigrant removal efforts.

According to a report released Thursday by the Biden administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported more than 271,000 foreign nationals in fiscal year 2024 — the largest number removed from the United States in 10 years.

But Homan told the Daily Caller that those numbers were largely the result of apprehensions by Border Patrol and not due to immigration enforcement efforts by ICE inside the country.

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