These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.

Reporting Highlights

Rollback of Protections: The Trump administration has gutted policies that gave immigrant minors access to legal counsel and relief from deportation while they applied to stay in the U.S.

Detained and Removed: ProPublica’s analysis found unaccompanied minors are being detained and removed at about three times the rate as during the final years of the first Trump presidency.

Wave of Deportation Orders: Immigration courts have issued more than 10,000 removal and voluntary departure orders each month for immigrant minors — nearly four times the rate as Trump’s last term.

These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.