Limiting migration led to 1.6 million losing legal status in 2025 By Ximena Bustillo, Sergio Martínez-Beltrán Published December 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM PST Facebook Email Listen • 6:37 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. Copyright 2025 NPR