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Reports of a dramatic uptick in U.S. removals in 2025, with estimates ranging from 56,000 to 340,000 deportations, and cases of U.S. citizens being detained or removed in error
The question has no single numeric answer because "" can mean different things: CBP/Border Patrol , people released into to await proceedings, formal admissions, /expulsions, or the net change in the ...
The question “How many Europeans have been deported” cannot be answered with a single, authoritative number from the provided reporting because official EU statistics and many media reports track “thi...
Independent, academic and advocacy sources place the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population in divergent but overlapping ranges that matter enormously for any cost estimate: conservative residual-meth...
When are reweighted to account for , , and interior-initiated removals, the picture changes: fiscal-year 2025 saw far fewer recorded border encounters than the prior year—about 444,000—while independe...
There is no single, authoritative public count of how many people died as a direct consequence of forcible deportation between 2017 and 2020; independent investigations and government data instead doc...
The best public tally of people encountered trying to cross the border illegally during the period covering the end of 2016 through the end of 2020 is found in “encounters” (apprehensions and expulsio...
The number of people in the United States without authorization during the Trump administration is not a single settled figure in the public record; estimates and counts vary by metric — apprehensions...
Self‑deportations—variously described by officials as “voluntary departures” or framed politically as people leaving under enforcement pressure—are being folded into public tallies of people who have ...
There is no authoritative public count of how many people who had lived in the United States for more than five years were deported; available federal data and independent trackers report removals and...
The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) fundamentally rewrote how the United States removes noncitizens by streamlining and accelerating removal procedures, ex...