Record number of deportations in the US in 2025: many without criminal records. I’ll explain it to you with figures and studies
Fiscal year 2025 will undoubtedly mark a record number of deportations in the U.S., but it exposes a latent problem: many cases involve Latin American citizens with no criminal record. While U.S. immigration courts broke caseload records, the figures reveal that many of those deported did not commit crimes. This period saw an unprecedented volume and speed of removal orders (more than 353,000 deportations executed by August 2025 according to Mobile Pathways), but also a pattern of deportations centered on …