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The Heritage Foundation\u2019s Oversight Project is the Department of Homeland Security for allegedly withholding public deportation records.<\/p>\n

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The Oversight Project submitted eight \u201chighly-specific\u201d Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), the organization announced in May. The requests asked the organizations to provide data to support the claim that 3 million illegal aliens have been deported, as well as other specific data points.<\/p>\n

Since then, DHS has not sent along the deportation records. The lawsuit : \u201cPlaintiffs requested the records at issue in this proceeding from the Department on May 7, 2026. Two months later, and to date, Plaintiffs have received only an acknowledgment of their requests and a conditional fee waiver. DHS\u2019s failure to respond timely is a violation of FOIA.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Mass Deportation Coalition, of which the Oversight Project is a member, released a playbook in March to help President Donald Trump achieve his campaign promise of delivering \u201cthe largest mass deportation operation in American history.\u201d Part of this playbook, the Oversight Project said in a press release, is \u201cregular and complete data transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Oversight Project unveiled its \u201cTwo Commas Compliance Tracker\u201d in May, a graphic designed to show the public the administration\u2019s progress in achieving the president\u2019s campaign promise. \u201cWe want to see two commas in the deportation numbers this year,\u201d
President of the Oversight Project Mike Howell said in the press release.<\/p>\n

The Oversight Project and DHS have shared priorities, according to the press release. Border Czar Tom Homan said in May that he expects deportation numbers to increase in 2026, saying \u201cmillions\u201d need to be deported.<\/p>\n

\u201c[W]e\u2019re not going to give up on President Trump\u2019s promise to the American people on mass deportations,\u201d Homan told Fox News. When asked about large-scale deportation efforts, Homan said he would \u201cgive it one hell of a shot.\u201d<\/p>\n

A DHS spokesman told The Federalist that the agency is continuing to deport illegal aliens, saying they have deported 3 million illegals thus far. This figure is one of the claims that the Oversight Project of in its FOIA requests to DHS. The department claimed it has received over a million FOIA requests, and is still processing thousands.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn FY 2025, DHS set a new record for FOIA activity \u2014 receiving more than one million FOIA requests and processing nearly one million requests, including many from prior fiscal years,\u201d a DHS spokesman told The Federalist. \u201cDHS maintained its FOIA backlog at 16% of total requests received, despite a 19% increase in incoming requests. The year ended with a backlog of just over 168,000 requests.\u201d<\/p>\n

The DHS spokesman told The Federalist that as of June 24, over 948,000 illegal aliens have been deported and over 981,000 have been arrested. In addition, they claim that the administration\u2019s crackdown on immigration caused around 2.2 million self-deportations.<\/p>\n

Howell, one of the in the case, told The Federalist that DHS could have quickly provided the deportation statistics: \u201cThis matter is now in litigation. It would have taken DHS as much time to send me the narrow deportation statistics we asked for as it took to send this unrelated note to you.\u00a0I was born at night but I wasn\u2019t born last night. I and others just want the deportation numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not the first instance of the Oversight Project filing a lawsuit against DHS. In 2023, the organization sued the Biden administration\u2019s DHS after it failed to comply with FOIA requests related to the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program. The department funded a grant program that placed Fox News, The Heritage Foundation, and the Republican Party on a \u201cpyramid of far-right radicalization,\u201d linking them to neo-Nazis.<\/p>\n

Now, the Oversight Project is again demanding transparency from the department. In addition to not responding to FOIA requests, DHS has not published its annual enforcement report for FY 2025 which was due by \u201clate December\u201d according to the Oversight Project.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmericans are being asked to rely on press releases, shifting toplines, and selectively framed numbers instead of the annual data ICE is supposed to produce,\u201d the Oversight Project\u2019s press release stated. \u201cA press release is a claim. The annual report is a record.\u201d<\/p>\n

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