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Reuters
December 11, 2025

As Trump misses deportation goals, ICE pushes migrants to give up their cases
By Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke


Federal immigration court data compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a non-profit research organization, show a jump in court-approved voluntary departures. The number of people who were granted voluntary departure while detained jumped more than five-fold to more than 16,000 in the first eight months of 2025, compared with the same period a year earlier under former President Joe Biden, the data show. That number does not include those who gave up on their cases and were ordered deported.


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