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DHS Withheld Public Deportation Stats From Watchdog Group, Lawsuit Alleges

“We want to see two commas in the deportation numbers this year,” President of the Oversight Project Mike Howell said.

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The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project is suing the Department of Homeland Security for allegedly withholding public deportation records.

The Oversight Project submitted eight “highly-specific” 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.

Since then, DHS has not sent along the deportation records. The lawsuit states: “Plaintiffs 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’s failure to respond timely is a violation of FOIA.”

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