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July 6, 2026 |
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These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.
By Mica Rosenberg and Jeff Ernsthausen
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We calculated the number of unaccompanied minors who were arrested in the interior of the country and were removed or voluntarily departed after being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement by analyzing ICE detention data obtained via the Freedom of Information Act. Versions of this dataset were originally released to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse and The New York Times. It covers detentions from October 2018 through mid-December 2025 and has a field flagging detainees as unaccompanied minors. We ran our methodology and analysis past several former and current Department of Homeland Security officials. We also spoke with experts who have previously analyzed immigration data, including Susan Long of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse; Ingrid Eagly of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law; Michael Danielson of the Acacia Center for Justice; and immigration researchers Joseph Gunther and Brandon Marrow.
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