HRW: Trump Deported 13K to Mexico, Up 42%

Published MAY 27

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Above: A woman trying to visit her husband, a detained immigrant, is denied visitation in New Jersey, May 26, 2026. Image credit: (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

The Spin

The Trump administration deported nearly 14,000 children — many of them toddlers — to countries they've never even lived in, stripping away any chance at due process. Cubans, Colombians and Venezuelans are being dumped in Mexico and Congo despite court orders protecting them, left without shelter, medication or legal status. This is a deliberate policy of cruelty that treats human beings as cargo.

The Associated Press Human Rights Watch Factchequeado

Border Patrol apprehensions are at their lowest level in 55 years, overdose deaths dropped 35% and fentanyl trafficking has been decimated — these are the real results of tough enforcement. Deportation agreements with Mexico are a necessary tool to remove people whose home countries refuse to take them back. Strong bilateral cooperation is saving lives on both sides of the border.

Usembassy CFR

Metaculus Prediction

There is a 14.8% chance that the US will phase out per-country caps on employment-based visas before 2030, according to the Metaculus prediction community.