Deportation in the second Trump administration

During Donald Trump's second term as president of the United States, his administration has pursued a deportation policy generally described as "hardline", "maximalist", and as a "mass deportation" campaign, involving the detention, confinement, and expulsion of hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their family members. The Trump administration has claimed that around 140,000 people had been deported as of April 2025, though some estimates put the number at roughly half that. On August 28, 2025, CNN reported that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) alone had deported nearly 200,000 people in seven months since Trump returned to office. By January 2026, the number of people which ICE alone deported rose to roughly 540,000.

The use of deportation flights by the U.S. has created pushback from some foreign governments, particularly that of Colombia. The total population of illegal immigrants in the United States was estimated at 11 million in 2022, with the top three states of California, Texas, and Florida constituting over half of the total population.

The administration has used the Alien Enemies Act to quickly deport immigrants with limited or no due process, and to be imprisoned in El Salvador, which was halted by federal judges and the Supreme Court. Several US citizens have been detained and deported. Administration practices have faced legal issues and controversy with lawyers, judges, and legal scholars.

At the time of the January 2025 start to Trump's second presidential term, a majority of Americans supported deporting all immigrants present in the United States illegally. As early as April 2025, multiple polls found that the majority of Americans thought that the deportations went "too far".