Limiting migration led to 1.6 million losing legal status in 2025

By Ximena Bustillo,

Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

Published December 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM EST

The Trump administration has stripped legal status from 1.6 million immigrants in 11 months. It's the largest removal of deportation protections for legal migrants in U.S. history.

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