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How many minors has Ice deported through a border state to juarez in 2025
Executive summary
Available reporting and public data in the provided sources do not give a definitive count of how many minors ICE "deported through a border state to Juárez" in 2025; ICE’s public enforcement statistics and news investigations describe large-scale interior and border removals and new programs targeting unaccompanied minors but do not list route‑by‑route numbers or specify how many minors were sent to Ciudad Juárez (noted as “Juárez”) [1] [2] [3]. Several outlets document policies and programs that could increase expulsions or “self‑deportations” of minors in 2025, including offers of cash to 17‑year‑olds and operations to locate unaccompanied children [3] [2].
1. ICE’s public stats don’t break out the specific route or destination of deportations
ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations statistics cover arrests, detentions and removals but the published datasets summarized by ICE and the Deportation Data Project focus on counts by action, conviction status, and fiscal totals — they do not, in the available sources, provide a public tally of minors deported specifically via a “border state to Juárez” corridor in 2025 [1] [4]. The Deportation Data Project aggregates ICE-supplied FOIA datasets and notes the most recent release through July 2025, but the materials cited here do not include the granular, city‑to‑city routing the question asks for [4].
2. Reporting documents programs and operations that target unaccompanied minors, but not numeric routing
The Guardian and Reuters‑cited reporting describe ICE pursuing unaccompanied immigrant children — gathering intelligence, checking for trafficking indicators and assessing deportability — and show the agency is actively locating minors who entered as children [2]. Politico and POLITICO pieces report a program offering a $2,500 “self‑deportation” option to some 17‑year‑olds and judicial challenges over detention and treatment of age‑outs, but these stories do not quantify how many children were physically sent to Juárez or through any particular border state [3] [5].
3. Data on “self‑deportations” and expulsions indicate high volumes but lack destination detail
The Guardian records ICE data that more than 11,000 non‑citizens reported self‑deporting between January and July 2025 — a sizable figure showing many departures — yet that dataset and the stories citing it do not disaggregate by age or by the Mexican city of arrival, like Juárez [6]. Likewise, analyses noting thousands deported for minor offenses signal expanded removals, but the cited Marshall Project and Deportation Data Project pieces focus on overall counts and legal categories rather than specific drop‑off cities [7] [8].
4. Legal fights and court rulings complicate the picture of minor removals
Federal court actions in late 2025 (reported in Politico) show judges enjoining certain ICE practices involving unaccompanied minors and age‑outs, reflecting contested agency policies. Those cases suggest policy changes and program rollouts are happening rapidly and are being litigated — which affects recordkeeping and may delay or obscure complete public disclosure of operational routing data [5] [3].
5. What the available sources do say about scale and intent
Sources show the administration set enforcement goals and that deportations and interior arrests increased in 2025: ICE and affiliated datasets describe hundreds of thousands of removals annually in recent years and aggressive interior enforcement operations in Texas and elsewhere [9] [10]. Coverage documents an intent to locate and, in some cases, expedite returns of people who arrived as children, including measures described as “self‑deportation” offers to 17‑year‑olds [2] [3].
6. Gaps, limitations, and how to get the specific number you asked for
The public sources provided do not include a count of minors deported specifically “through a border state to Juárez” in 2025; they do not list destination city breakdowns or age‑specific routing in the excerpts available [1] [4] [6]. To obtain that specific number, one would need ICE’s operational removal manifests, DHS/CBP or ICE FOIA releases that include city‑level offload data, or Deportation Data Project files with route‑level annotations — records which the supplied sources say exist in ICE datasets but that are not shown here [4]. Absent those documents in the current reporting, any precise figure would be speculative.
7. Competing viewpoints and implicit agendas in the sources
Advocacy and investigative outlets (The Guardian, Marshall Project, Deportation Data Project) emphasize potential civil‑liberties harms, increased targeting of minors and deportations for minor offenses; ICE/administration statements frame programs like voluntary self‑deportation as lawful, safety‑focused and limited to certain age groups [2] [3] [7]. The Deportation Data Project works from ICE FOIAs and academic analysis and may emphasize systemic trends; ICE’s public statements highlight program intent and operational necessity — both perspectives shape what data are released and how actions are described [4] [3].
If you want, I can draft a FOIA request template or identify which ICE/DHS datasets and Deportation Data Project files to request or examine for city‑level routing and age breakdowns that would answer your specific Juárez question.