Deportations/Returns

Explore all research, analysis, commentary, and data on deportations and returns—terms used in different parts of the world to describe the enforced or assisted return of migrants to their countries of origin.

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The U.S.-Mexico Border Problem Will Not Be “Solved” Until All Parts of the Border Enforcement System Are Properly Resourced

The $13.6 billion border emergency supplemental spending bill the Biden administration is seeking lays out the elements for resourcing immigration functions to full capacity across the entire border enforcement system. Without resourcing the system across all its parts, including adjudications and management, no administration, present or future, will be able to effectively manage spontaneous border arrivals, this commentary argues.

Aerial photo of the U.S. Capitol

Shifting Patterns and Policies Reshape Migration to U.S.-Mexico Border in Major Ways in 2023

There is a deeper story behind the U.S. government's fiscal 2023 border encounters numbers than that the year marked a new record high. The pivot from the pandemic-era Title 42 expulsions policy and sharp diversification in nationalities have reshaped migrant arrivals unlike any year before. This commentary goes beyond the headlines to focus on the more enduring—and challenging—realities occuring at the U.S.-Mexico border.

CBP personnel process and screen migrants for possible entry into the U.S.

20th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference

Experts examined the Biden administration's immigration actions, border policy, state actions, legal representation, humanitarian parole for Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan nationals, and other top issues in immigration policy.

A Turning Point for the Unauthorized Immigrant Population in the United States

The unauthorized immigrant population in the United States stood at approximately 11.2 million people in mid-2021, with larger annual growth than at any point since 2015, according to MPI's latest estimates. Even as the Mexican unauthorized immigrant population continued its decade-long decline, there were new entrants from a growing array of other countries.

Vice President Kamala Harris participates in a DACA roundtable

Haitians Flee a Nation Nearing Collapse

Gang violence, political collapse, and economic freefall are driving record Haitian emigration, with hundreds of thousands on the move and few destinations offering safe harbor.

Haitians at a medical site in Jeremie, Haiti.