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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org

Latest US deportation data through August 23: the rate is now about 1200 deportations every day, about half of Trump's goal This data is noisy and very imperfect, but there was a slight drop in deportations from the previous peak

Line plot showing average daily removals by ICE in the US during 2025. The title of the figure is
aug 29, 2025, 6:42 pm • 10 6

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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org

Even if Trump only deports half of his goal (500k annually instead of 1 million per year), after four years there will be 1.5 million fewer jobs Half of these employment reductions will be in construction and child care, where immigrants and US born workers will lose hundreds of thousands of jobs

aug 29, 2025, 6:55 pm • 2 1 • view