By Pascal Ibe

Claim

@Zaddy_Bruh, on the X platform, made a list of countries and their number of illegal immigrants that will be deported from the UD by the Trump administration.

Verdict

The list of countries and the numbers of immigrants in the claim are MISLEADING.

There’s nowhere in this list of countries and the number of their citizens presented by the Trump administration at any time.

After his Inauguration on Monday, the new US president, Donald Trump slashed a program that was used by the Biden administration to temporarily allow the entrance of more than half a million migrants fleeing Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

The US leader also promised to plan stringent actions on illegal immigrants coming from Mexico’s border.

Full Text

An X user, @Zaddy_Bruh, on the X platform, made a claim of the list of countries and their number of illegal immigrants that will be deported from the UD by the Trump administration

The X user wrote, “My goat Donald Trump is deporting all of these people tomorrow

Look who is number 1 on the list 🤣

• Nigeria🇳🇬: 3.7m

 •Zimbabwe 🇿🇼: 765k

•Ghana 🇬🇭: 1.2m

•Mozambique 🇲🇿: 123k

•Bandaglash🇧🇩: 1.9m

•Brazil 🇧🇷: 6.9m

•Congo 🇨🇩: 2.1m

•Mexico 🇲🇽: 17.8m

In the claim, “My GOAT stands for Greatest Of All Time.

The post garnered a staggering 2.5m views, over 15k likes, and more than 1k reposts, according to X analytics.

Donald Trump, the former United States leader from 2016 to 2020, was inaugurated on Monday in Washington DC as the 47th president of the country.

Verification 

There’s nowhere in this list of countries and the number of their citizens presented by the Trump administration at any time.

Declaring illegal immigration a national emergency, Trump ordered the Pentagon to provide support for border wall construction, detention space, and migrant transportation and empowered the secretary of Defense to send troops to the border as needed.

Trump called for his administration to reinstate his “remain in Mexico” program, which forced non-Mexican migrants to wait in Mexico for the resolution of their U.S. cases.

Mr Trump also moved to toss out a Biden-era program that allowed migrants fleeing four troubled nations to fly into the United States and remain in the country temporarily, part of a sweeping first-day crackdown on immigration.

The program, known as humanitarian parole and introduced by the Biden administration in early 2023, allowed migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela to fly into the United States if they had a financial sponsor and passed security checks. Migrants who entered the program could stay for up to two years unless they found other ways to stay long-term.

As of late last year, more than 500,000 migrants had entered the country through the initiative 

As part of the immigration policy, Trump also ended birthright citizenship in the US.

In a comprehensive analysis, The New York Times compared estimates from several research organizations and the federal government, as well as more recent administrative data, to better understand who these immigrants are, how they got here, and which of them may be most vulnerable to deportation under Mr. Trump.

The analysis revealed that more than half of those who are in the United States without authorization have been here for 10 years or more.

Mexicans remain by far the largest group of people living in the country without authorization, but their share has declined significantly since the 1990s, according to data from the Pew Research Center.

An influx of people fleeing humanitarian and economic crises came from Central America during Mr. Trump’s first term, and many of them are still in the country.

Mexican officials and other leaders in the region say they have not been able to meet with the incoming administration about its deportation plans.

The New York Times analysis stated that out of all those who are unauthorized, Mr. Trump has said the top priority for deportation will be criminals. Around 655,000 noncitizens are living in the U.S. with criminal convictions or pending charges, according to data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, though many of these charges are for minor offenses such as traffic violations.

There were about 39,000 immigrants in ICE custody at the end of December, near capacity for holding facilities.

The Trump administration may also focus its enforcement efforts on the nearly 1.4 million people whom an immigration judge has already ordered to be removed from the country.

Data on countries and the number of their citizens living as immigrants in the US

Statistics by Migration Policy Institute, showed that the 10.7 million U.S. residents born in Mexico represented by far the largest immigrant group in the United States in 2022, although their number is down by about 1 million since 2010. Mexican immigrants made up 23 percent of the U.S. immigrant population in 2022, down from 29 percent in 2010. India and China (including Hong Kong and Macao but not Taiwan) were the next largest sending countries, accounting for approximately 2.8 million and 2.5 million immigrants in 2022, respectively, or 6 percent and 5 percent of all immigrants. Other top countries of origin included the Philippines (4 percent); El Salvador, Vietnam, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic (each 3 percent); and Guatemala and Korea (each 2 percent

Conclusion

The list of countries and number of illegal immigrants to be deported is MISLEADING after findings.