The Trump administration has revoked or terminated the immigration status of approximately 2.2 million illegal aliens since President Donald Trump returned to office on January 20, 2025, according to an announcement Thursday from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), a component of the Department of Homeland Security.
The figure, first reported by The Federalist, represents the cumulative total of status revocations and terminations carried out by the agency—not a single new enforcement action. It is nearly seven times the number of comparable actions taken during the final two years of the Biden administration, according to USCIS.
"Since Jan. 20, 2025, USCIS has carried out immigration enforcement actions to revoke or terminate the status of approximately 2.2 million illegal aliens," the agency said in its announcement.
A DHS spokesperson framed the numbers as the fulfillment of a promise: "President Trump promised the American people that our immigration laws would be enforced, and these numbers reflect the scale of that commitment. Those who abuse or flagrantly disregard our immigration system are now on notice that these violations of law will not be tolerated or overlooked. Securing our border was only the beginning. We are restoring integrity to the entire immigration system and putting the safety of our American citizens first."
The enforcement actions described by USCIS include ending the misuse of Temporary Protected Status so that TPS functions as a temporary program rather than a permanent legal shield; denying applications to extend or change nonimmigrant status when no legal basis exists; ending automatic extensions for certain work permits; and terminating categorical humanitarian parole programs that the Biden administration used to admit migrants en masse.
The practical effect, as The Federalist reported, is that the withdrawal of these legal giveaways allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement to move forward with removals without first having to fight through the tangle of pro-migration litigation that previously shielded many of those affected.
USCIS is the agency that reviews requests for visas, work permits, green cards, and naturalization—and under Biden, it operated as a rubber stamp for illegal migrants, approving millions of work permits, Social Security numbers, Temporary Protected Status grants, and green cards. The result was a flood of illegal migrants into American workplaces, housing, schools, and hospitals, fueled by billions of dollars distributed through Democrat-aligned non-profits that provided cash, rest stops, busing, and hotel accommodations.
The reversal is visible in specific cases. USCIS ended Temporary Protected Status for the many Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, canceling their work permits and clearing the way for ICE to fly them home to Haiti. The agency has also revived security reviews and fact checks when awarding migration benefits, and has halved citizenship awards as it conducts the security checks that were discarded under Biden.
The Post Millennial's account of the announcement noted that the 2.2 million figure does not mean 2.2 million deportations will occur immediately; rather, it reflects the cumulative total of status revocations since Trump took office.
Deportation numbers are already climbing. Since January 20, 2025, an independent estimate puts government-carried-out deportations at roughly 980,000 through July 31, 2026. Another 310,000 to 1.5 million immigrants who had lived in the country for at least a year are estimated to have left on their own, bringing the combined number of deportations and voluntary departures to roughly 1.3 million to 2.4 million. Meanwhile, apprehensions at the southwest border fell roughly 95 percent in fiscal year 2026.
The agency faces continued resistance from what The Federalist described as elite-funded pro-migration lawyers, pro-migration judges, sob-story journalists, and progressive advocacy groups. The courtroom opposition has been repeatedly defeated by DHS lawyers, though certain categories of migrants—refugees among them—remain tied up in litigation.
The Federalist's X account promoted the story Thursday, linking to its report: "DHS: Trump Admin Revoked Immigration Status Of 2.2 Million Illegals."
The announcement lands as the administration continues its mass deportation agenda, a central promise of the 2024 campaign. For foreign nationals—including legal immigrants and visa holders—the figures signal a more stringent enforcement environment, with greater scrutiny of legal status, work authorization, and compliance with visa conditions.
Our Take
Let's be clear about what just happened. For four years, the Biden administration ran USCIS as a conveyor belt—approving work permits, Social Security numbers, and green cards for people who had no legal right to be here, then handing the bill to American taxpayers. The result was lower wages for working Americans, crowded schools, strained hospitals, and cities across the country picking up the tab.
Now the conveyor belt is running in reverse. Two point two million status revocations is not a rounding error—it is the largest rollback of Biden's open-borders regime to date, and it is nearly seven times what the previous administration managed in its final two years. That is what enforcement looks like when the people running the agencies actually believe in the law.
Is every one of those 2.2 million going to be on a plane tomorrow? No. Courts, lawyers, and the usual army of taxpayer-funded activists will fight every case. But the legal shield is gone. The parole programs are shuttered. TPS is temporary again. And the men and women at ICE now have a clear path to do the job the American people elected this president to do.
Springfield, Ohio, is the test case. The Haitian migrants who were dumped into that town by the thousands have had their work permits canceled and their removal set in motion. That is not cruelty—that is the law, finally enforced.
Patriots, this is what you voted for. The question now is whether the courts and the bureaucracy will let it finish—or whether the same people who told you the border was fine will find a way to stall it again. Keep watching. Keep speaking up. And hold every official in Washington to the promise that was made.
