1.6MM Immigrants Lost Legal Status in the US in 2025

NPR published an article last week tracking the 1.6MM people who have lost legal protection in the first 11 months of the Trump administration. I've covered before the roughly 2MM people who have been deported or self-deported the US since January, but these batch of moves are what I consider as laying the groundwork for next year's round of deportations.

The 1.6MM people mentioned here by NPR came to the United States legally, via immigration parole, asylum, or temporary protected status programs. Some of these programs were already expiring, like Haiti's most recent extension was planned for Feb 2026. Ukraine's TPS is also set to expire next year with no word yet on extension. Venezuela, Honduras, and Haiti make up almost 60% of the total count, with Venezuelans alone coming in at ~605K according to the report.