The Trump administration has deported 900,000 migrants — Axios
Since the Trump administration returned to power in January 2025, the U.S. has deported more than 900,000 undocumented immigrants. Economists warn that mass deportations are already affecting the labor market and could reduce the productivity of the U.S. economy in the long term.
“Since January 20, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security has removed more than 900,000 people from the U.S.,” said Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) David Venturella in a statement to Breitbart. According to him, the agency is constantly seeking new ways to increase the number of deportations.
Venturella took the helm of ICE only on June 1, 2026—following the resignation of his predecessor, Todd Lyons. During Trump’s presidency, the agency significantly expanded its staff and increased the number of beds in migrant detention centers. Congress allocated $75 billion to ICE to carry out the mass deportation program.
The sharp decline in immigration is becoming one of the most acute slowdowns in U.S. population growth in recent decades—and the labor market is already feeling the effects. Federal Reserve analysts have determined that due to the slowdown in immigration, the number of new jobs needed to maintain a stable unemployment rate has fallen to nearly zero. This means that even minimal job growth no longer indicates a healthy labor market.
The Congressional Budget Office projects that labor force growth over the next decade will be half as fast as it was in 2025—precisely because of migration restrictions.
Researchers at the Yale Budget Lab have calculated that even a temporary slowdown in immigration could leave the U.S. with 4.6 million fewer people of working age as early as 2033. And this gap will persist for decades.
Economic productivity could decline by 0.25–0.44% by 2052—depending on the scale of the reduction in migration. The reason is fewer entrepreneurs starting new businesses and having children who would also become entrepreneurs.
“Fewer migrants today means a demographic echo for decades to come: a persistently smaller number of entrepreneurs and a less dynamic economy,” says Yale University economist Abhi Gupta.
Federal Reserve analysts are cautious in their conclusions: slow population growth does not in itself make the labor market more vulnerable to crises. However, they acknowledge that the current demographic shift, triggered by immigration policy, “has limited parallels in other developed countries” and may unfold more rapidly than any previous similar processes.
This is reported by Breitbart and Axios.
Earlier, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced her resignation. She stated that she is stepping down due to her husband’s illness; he is battling a rare form of bone cancer.
