U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said it had taken nearly 2.2 million immigration enforcement actions since January 20, 2025, to revoke or terminate immigration status. The Department of Homeland Security announced the tally in a statement released October 29, 2026.
The department attributed the actions to the administration of President Donald J. Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. It described the total as nearly seven times the number of such actions during President Joe Biden’s final two years combined.
The release said the actions were taken against people whose status the agency sought to revoke or terminate. It grouped different administrative measures and proceedings in one count.
The figures are the agency’s reported tally. They are not presented as a count of completed removals.
The tally combines five kinds of immigration action
DHS listed five categories: Temporary Protected Status, nonimmigrant status applications, Notices to Appear, work authorization, and parole. The categories cover different agency decisions.
The department said it is ending what it called misuse of Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The agency is pursuing termination efforts involving more than one million foreign nationals from 13 countries. Some of those terminations are being held up by litigation.
Another category is the denial of applications to extend or change nonimmigrant status when the agency finds no legal basis. DHS also counted Notices to Appear (NTAs), which place people the agency considers removable into removal proceedings before an immigration judge.
The department included ending automatic extensions of employment authorization documents. It said applicants must be screened and vetted before work authorization is renewed. The release did not provide a separate count for that category.
The final category covers categorical parole programs. DHS said it is ending those programs and returning parole decisions to case-by-case review. One program, created under the Biden administration, had allowed roughly 500,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan migrants to fly directly into the United States.
The department said the agency is using its legal authority to deny applications it considers meritless, terminate benefits it considers unlawfully granted, begin removal proceedings and revoke approvals it considers improper. Those are the actions DHS grouped in its announcement.
Visa revocations and ICE removals sit outside the tally
DHS said its reported count comes in addition to visa revocations and denials by the State Department and removals by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Those actions are tallied by other agencies.
A September ICE report put deportations at roughly 421,182 between October 2025 and August 24, 2026. Separately, the White House said earlier this month that the administration had revoked more than 300,000 visas.
That visa figure included roughly 4,000 tied to birth tourism and 6,000 held by foreign students who committed crimes or had ties to terrorism. DHS did not fold those figures into its count of agency actions.
Mullin said the effort reaches beyond border security
Mullin said the numbers reflected Trump’s commitment to enforce immigration law, and described the work as extending beyond border security.
“President Trump promised the American people that our immigration laws would be enforced, and these numbers reflect the scale of that commitment. Those who abuse or flagrantly disregard our immigration system are now on notice that these violations of law will not be tolerated or overlooked. Securing our border was only the beginning. We are restoring integrity to the entire immigration system and putting the safety of our American citizens first.”
The secretary said the administration would not overlook violations. His remarks presented the tally as part of a broader effort to enforce immigration laws.
A citizenship complaint alleges a false statement at interview
In a separate denaturalization case, the agency and the Justice Department filed a complaint against Francis Darko Asamoah, a 56-year-old Ghanaian national, in the Eastern District of Virginia. The complaint alleges he testified under oath at his 2013 naturalization interview that he had no children.
A Virginia birth certificate identified Asamoah as the father of a child born in July 2011 to a woman other than his American spouse, according to the allegations described in the case. The complaint seeks to revoke his citizenship.
The agency said citizenship may be revoked when naturalization was illegally obtained or secured by hiding important facts or lying. Its statement cited the Immigration and Nationality Act.
The tally does not establish that every action ended in lost status
The announcement describes actions taken to revoke or terminate status. The Daily Wire, citing DHS, said it was unclear whether all 2.2 million people in the count had lost status.
DHS said the actions included identifying fraudulent applications, denying ineligible benefits and flagging national security threats. The release described those steps as consequences of the agency’s enforcement work.
“Every fraudulent application identified, every ineligible benefit denied, and every national security threat flagged represents an immigration system working to uphold the law and protect the American people.”
