Trump Admin Deported Fewer People Than It Fired in First Month--Report
Source: NBC News
Published Feb 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM EST | Updated Feb 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM EST
The Trump administration in its first month outnumbered deportations with federal job cuts by almost double, even as many of those cuts face legal challenges, according to a new report from Reuters. Newsweek reached out to the White House by email on Saturday afternoon for comment.
Why It Matters
President Donald Trump has tackled the twin priorities of reducing the number of illegal immigrants in the country while also reducing the scope and scale of the federal government through aggressive cutbacks on personnel and programs through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Last month, he enacted mass deportations within the first day of his new administration, a policy that has been shown to be popular among voters across the political spectrum, before and after the election.
A New York Times/Ipsos survey (January 2-10) found that 55 percent of voters back Trump's mass deportation plan, while 88 percent support deporting undocumented immigrants with criminal records. Most Democrats and Republicans agree that the immigration system is broken. At the same time, his efforts to cut probationary employees at departments have faced legal challenges. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan this week knocked back one effort lodged by state attorneys general to sue the administration over firing employees, arguing that plaintiffs in that case failed to demonstrate damages.
What To Know
A report from Reuters published on Saturday found that the Trump administration in its first month managed to deport around 37,660 people, citing previously unpublished U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data. This falls below the monthly average of roughly 57,000 removals and returns during the final full year of the Biden administration. This is in contrast to the far greater number of job cuts the administration has achieved. While the full number remains in flux due to the legal challenges, some of which remain in appeal while the others await rulings, but around 200,000 workers have been potentially impacted by the cuts. Some of those cuts could be reversed, however.
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