Limiting Migration Led to 1.6 Million Losing Legal Status in 2025

Trump canceled temporary legal status for more than 1.5 million immigrants in 2025

Johann Teran, photographed in Minneapolis on Jan. 31, 2025, is among the Venezuelans living in the United States with temporary protected status who is likely to see his legal status expire. The Trump administration has canceled TPS for more than 1 million people from 11 countries. (Photo by Madison McVan/Minnesota Reformer)WASHINGTON — Since Inauguration Day, more than 1.5 million immigrants have either lost or will lose their temporary legal s…

Limiting migration led to 1.6 million losing legal status in 2025

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.