WORST OF THE WORST? REALLY?

Trump’s Biggest Deportation Day Exposed

ICE data analyzed by PunchUp reveals that a three-year-old was among 1,566 people detained on June 4, 2025.

A three-year-old child was among 1,566 people arrested by ICE on the single most prolific day of President Donald Trump’s second-term deportation drive, immigration data analyzed by PunchUp reveals. Trump, 79, had vowed his immigration crackdown would target “the worst of the worst,” but the June 4, 2025, sweep took more people into custody in 24 hours than at any other point in either of his terms, the Beast’s sister investigation Substack outlet, PunchUp, found in its analysis of the figures. ICE has averaged 630 arrests a day this term, roughly 45 percent above the pace of his first-term peak. The numbers come from 505,000 ICE I-213 forms released by The Guardian after litigation by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. They dwarf former President Joe Biden’s record. His busiest single day, on Nov. 1, 2022, saw 803 arrests—barely half of Trump’s June 4 total. The three-year-old, an Ecuadorian, was one of three children swept up at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, an ICE field office where immigrants attend check-ins. Each was handed a “Bag and Baggage” final removal order, the most severe disposition of all. None had been accused of any crime. A spokesperson for DHS said the agency only began tracking full administrative arrests in Trump’s second term, making any earlier comparison “misleading.”