As the administration moved in late July 2026 to strip Temporary Protected Status from Haitians, MS NOW tallied the cumulative scope of the policy: since January 2025, the Trump administration has revoked the legal status of roughly 1.5 to 1.8 million people who had been living in the United States lawfully. Immigrant advocates and some outlets describe this as “de-legalizing” people who did everything by the rules, then had the rug pulled out from under them.
The number is a running total drawn largely from Migration Policy Institute analysis. It combines the termination of Temporary Protected Status for more than a million people from countries including Haiti, Venezuela, and others, with the end of humanitarian parole programs, among them CBP One and the CHNV parole process for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans, that had covered roughly half a million more. Estimates vary with the cutoff date and what is counted: the Associated Press put the 2025 total at more than 1.5 million, while Forbes and later tallies reach about 1.8 million.
Migration Policy Institute analyst Julia Gelatt described the scale as historically unusual: “I don't think we've ever seen such a huge number of people losing their immigration status all at once.” The people affected entered legally and, in many cases, hold work permits and have lived in the country for years; the revocations expose them to loss of employment and to deportation (see DHS Declared Protected Status Over for 350,000 Haitians While Lawyers Said a Court Order Still Blocked It).