U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 2,015 people classified as known or suspected terrorists from January 20, 2025, through September 9, 2026, according to a September 10 statement from the Department of Homeland Security. DHS said ICE arrested more than 2,150 people in that category in the United States during the same period.
The department announced the figures ahead of the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks and attributed the enforcement activity to the administration of President Donald J. Trump. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said ICE personnel were carrying out their duty to protect the United States and described the work as part of continued vigilance against terrorism.
DHS identified Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, a Mexican national, as one person arrested during the period. The department said he was arrested in Omaha, Nebraska, and charged with being the ringleader of the failed terrorist plot against UFC Freedom 250 in June. According to DHS, he entered the United States on a B-2 visitor visa, remained after it expired in December 2001 and received Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals in 2014.
The statement also named Felipe Linares De Oliveira Dell Aquilla, a Brazilian national whom DHS described as a former commander of Primeiro Comando da Capital and Comando Vermelho, both designated foreign terrorist organizations. DHS said he was holding his wife hostage against her will and preparing to flee to Mexico when he was arrested in Mooresville, North Carolina, in June. The department said he had entered the United States illegally at an unknown date and location.
DHS further cited four Venezuelan nationals it identified as members of Tren de Aragua: Keiber Jaen Martinez, Samuel Gonzalez Castro, Eferson Gabriel Morillo-Gomez and Keineyer Ibarra-Mujica. The department said all four pleaded guilty in June after being charged in a 2024 Bronx double murder. According to the statement, Martinez, Morillo-Gomez and Ibarra-Mujica entered through Texas in 2023, while Castro entered illegally in 2022. Immigration judges issued final removal orders for Martinez on September 5, 2024; Castro on November 20, 2024; and Ibarra-Mujica on June 17, 2024.