Vance vows Trump admin will 'use everything' it can to increase number of criminal deportations
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The White House faces limited US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention space
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Published March 13, 2025 8:43pm EDT

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Vice President JD Vance said he expects deportation numbers to rise as the Trump administration shifts from gaining operational control of the southern border to ramping up efforts to remove illegal migrants from the country.

The White House is working to fulfill President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to  of immigrants who entered the country illegally during the past four years of the Biden administration.

"We've  by well over 95%, and frankly, I think those numbers are going to continue to come down," Vance told "The Ingraham Angle" Thursday in an interview from the White House.





Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) El Paso Processing Center is pictured in El Paso, Texas on February 13, 2025. ((Photo by JUSTIN HAMEL/AFP via Getty Images))

Trump signed a number of executive orders relating to immigration when he took office in late January, including declaring an "invasion" at the southern border and deploying U.S. troops.



Reuters  that the administration deported 37,660 people during Trump’s first month in office, which is below the monthly average of removals in the last full year of Biden's administration.



The US-Mexico border fence in Nogales, Arizona, US, on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Photographer: Rebecca Noble/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Vance told  host Laura Ingraham it will take time for deportations to increase, but the administration is making progress and working to ramp up the numbers.

He praised Department of Homeland Security (DHS)  for her public information campaign calling on illegal migrants to self-deport and "border czar" Tom Homan for repurposing the CBP One app to meet Trump’s immigration goals.



U.S. Vice President JD Vance (R) speaks with Gov. Greg Abbott as he arrives at the U.S. Border Patrol Eagle Pass South Station for a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border on March 05, 2025 in Eagle Pass, Texas. ((Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images))

Do you remember that? It actually facilitated illegal entry under the Biden administration, according to Vance.

"We're repurposing it to . So what we're going to encourage a lot of people to do is we don't have to come and knock on your door and send you home. We're going to do that, of course. But before that happens, why don't you get on a plane and go home yourself? So it's an all-of-the-above approach. We're going to use everything that we can."



Vice President JD Vance (R) speaks with Gov. Greg Abbott as he arrives at the U.S. Border Patrol Eagle Pass South Station for a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border on March 05, 2025 in Eagle Pass, Texas. ((Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images))

The White House is struggling to increase the number of deportations due to limited U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention space.

DHS officials told NBC News  the Marshals Service, Department of Defense and Federal Bureau of Prisons to increase bed space while they ask for more resources from Congress.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told "The Will Cain Show" in late January that some criminal migrants would be , a U.S. Naval base in Cuba, in the interim as the process to repatriate them to their homelands plays out.

Two U.S.  that 40 migrants who were held at Guantánamo Bay, commonly known as Gitmo, were sent back to the United States and are now being held in Louisiana.

It’s unclear why they were sent back and whether the United States will continue to hold migrants at that location.



There are currently no migrants being held at Gitmo, and no flights scheduled to arrive with more migrants.

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## Fox News' Liz Friden contributed to this report.
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