Deportation

How many people the United States deports and whom, from everyone without legal status to those who commit crimes, how removals are carried out, including to third countries, and whether deported veterans may return.

Focus immigration enforcement on violent criminals, not law-abiding immigrants

10 members
Daniel Biss
House · IL-9 · Democrat
“Ban Mass Raids: Immigration enforcement should target real threats like violent criminals and human traffickers, not families and workers. Immigration enforcement should only be able to conduct raids in cases involving suspects with violent criminal records.”
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Adrian Boafo
House · MD-5 · Democrat
“Target real threats, not our families. Prioritize real public safety threats in immigration enforcement by focusing resources on violent offenders, traffickers, and cartel networks rather than law-abiding families who contribute to our communities and economy.”
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Luke Bronin
House · CT-1 · Democrat
“Return immigration enforcement to a public-safety-centered model with appropriate limits on use of force and respect for the rule of law and constitutional rights. Immigration enforcement plays an important role in public safety, but it has to include due process and a focus on violent offenders. It must focus on making communities safer, not creating and promoting chaos.”
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Cait Conley
House · NY-17 · Democrat
“We need to secure the border, fix our broken immigration system so it can function effectively and in an orderly manner, and ensure enforcement is focused on violent criminals.”
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“Keeping the focus of enforcement where it belongs — on dangerous criminals and human traffickers, not on long-standing community members.”
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Zach Dembo
House · KY-6 · Democrat
“We must hold ICE to the same standards as all law enforcement: comprehensive training (not just 47 days), body cameras for transparency, no hiding identities behind masks, and a focus on actual violent criminals – not law-abiding people in courthouses, schools, or churches. We can have both security and humanity.”
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Johnny Garcia
House · TX-35 · Democrat
“We should make sure that Border Patrol has what they need to keep our border secure and ICE should be focused on criminals and held to the same standard as police.”
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Lindsay James
House · IA-2 · Democrat
“Reform ICE: ICE has been used to terrorize innocent and law abiding American citizens in cities across this country. We need new leadership, new training methods, and get back to the basics of targeting the worst of the worst.”
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Ben McAdams
House · UT-1 · Democrat
“I will work to dismantle the current enforcement model that relies on fear and indiscriminate raids, replace it with a system rooted in constitutional protections, and refocus federal resources on genuine public safety threats. We can enforce our laws without abandoning our values. America should never operate a federal agency that undermines the Constitution it is sworn to uphold.”
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Manny Rutinel
House · CO-8 · Democrat
“Comprehensive Immigration Reform and Public Safety: Our immigration system is broken. We need to fix it. We need an immigration enforcement system that improves public safety and national security by focusing on the deportation of violent criminals, gang members, and human traffickers – not our neighbors who contribute to our communities, pay taxes, and pose no threat to our safety.”
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Janelle Stelson
House · PA-10 · Democrat
“Deportations should focus on those who have committed violent crimes, and that is clearly not what is happening right now.”
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Deport immigrants who commit crimes

8 members
Zach Dembo
House · KY-6 · Democrat
“At the Department of Justice, Zach Dembo served as a prosecutor fighting to get justice for victims of crime, getting tough convictions and helping deport violent undocumented immigrants to keep all of us safe in Central Kentucky.”
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Jessica Killin
House · CO-5 · Democrat
“Killin also highlights her immigration policy: creating a system that keeps people safe by enforcing the law, deporting dangerous criminals, and treating people fairly.”
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“So I’ll start: Joe Biden completely failed us on the border. As a former military police officer, I know keeping people safe means enforcing the law. We need a secure border to deport dangerous criminals And an immigration system that keeps us safe, enforces the law, and treats people fairly.”
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Eileen Laubacher
House · CO-4 · Democrat
“Secure our border, preventing uncontrolled illegal immigration and removing dangerous criminals who are here illegally”
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JoAnna Mendoza
House · AZ-6 · Democrat
“In Congress, JoAnna will work with both parties to strengthen border security at ports of entry, deporting violent criminals, holding cartels accountable, and ensuring that immigration enforcement is professional, properly trained, and consistent with the law.”
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Richard Ojeda
House · NC-9 · Democrat
“There has to be a process, and it has to be a real one. People who have worked here for decades, raised families here, and broken no other laws should have a path that involves accountability, not a permanent underclass. People who commit violent crimes should be removed.”
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Bobby Pulido
House · TX-15 · Democrat
“Our goal as a country should be to have a secure border – a policy that should not change based on what president or party is in charge – and we have to go after the violent criminals that are here illegally and get them out of our country.”
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Manny Rutinel
House · CO-8 · Democrat
“Comprehensive Immigration Reform and Public Safety: Our immigration system is broken. We need to fix it. We need an immigration enforcement system that improves public safety and national security by focusing on the deportation of violent criminals, gang members, and human traffickers – not our neighbors who contribute to our communities, pay taxes, and pose no threat to our safety.”
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Janelle Stelson
House · PA-10 · Democrat
“I support deporting every violent illegal immigrant and oppose taxpayer benefits for anyone in the country illegally.”
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End mass deportations

5 members
Melissa Bean
House · IL-8 · Democrat
“Oppose Trump’s mass deportation and family separation policies”
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Darializa Avila Chevalier
House · NY-13 · Democrat
“Darializa will fight to abolish the deportation machine, expand pathways to citizenship, secure free legal representation for immigrants, and more.”
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“Abolish ICE and the deportation machine”
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Oliver Gilbert
House · FL-24 · Democrat
“It’s time to end funding for these shameful deportation policies and redirect that investment where it belongs: into our communities.”
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“In Washington, he will redirect spending toward our children and families, so that the resources no longer being wasted on mass deportations start building something that actually lasts.”
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Angela Gonzales-Torres
House · CA-34 · Democrat
“Abolish ICE and end the mass deportation apparatus”
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Donavan McKinney
House · MI-13 · Democrat
“These are not normal times and the Democratic Party must be a party that includes all of us, fights for all of us, and opposes this agenda of mass deportations, internment camps, and the criminalization of immigrant communities.”
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Guarantee due process before anyone is deported

5 members
Daniel Biss
House · IL-9 · Democrat
“Reining in Trump’s Deportation Forces: Trump is deporting U.S. citizens and others without a legal right to do so, violating court orders and denying people access to the legal system before whisking them away to foreign prisons. We should ban any President from violating anyone in America’s constitutional rights.”
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Luke Bronin
House · CT-1 · Democrat
“Return immigration enforcement to a public-safety-centered model with appropriate limits on use of force and respect for the rule of law and constitutional rights. Immigration enforcement plays an important role in public safety, but it has to include due process and a focus on violent offenders. It must focus on making communities safer, not creating and promoting chaos.”
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Darializa Avila Chevalier
House · NY-13 · Democrat
“Darializa will fight to abolish the deportation machine, expand pathways to citizenship, secure free legal representation for immigrants, and more.”
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Angela Gonzales-Torres
House · CA-34 · Democrat
“Protections against arbitrary deportations and permanent family separation”
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Ben McAdams
House · UT-1 · Democrat
“We must protect TPS recipients, safeguard due process, and ensure that no child grows up in fear of losing their parents to unjust deportation.”
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Abolish ICE

3 members
Daniel Biss
House · IL-9 · Democrat
“We must abolish ICE. It is abhorrent and anti-American to see ICE agents disappearing people into detention centers or deporting them to danger. We can and should enforce federal laws against drug trafficking, human trafficking, terrorism, and other violent threats without creating a secret police force to kidnap people without recourse.”
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Darializa Avila Chevalier
House · NY-13 · Democrat
“Darializa will fight to abolish the deportation machine, expand pathways to citizenship, secure free legal representation for immigrants, and more.”
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“Abolish ICE and the deportation machine”
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Angela Gonzales-Torres
House · CA-34 · Democrat
“Abolish ICE and end the mass deportation apparatus”
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Stop separating families through detention and deportation

3 members
Melissa Bean
House · IL-8 · Democrat
“Oppose Trump’s mass deportation and family separation policies”
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Angela Gonzales-Torres
House · CA-34 · Democrat
“Protections against arbitrary deportations and permanent family separation”
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Ben McAdams
House · UT-1 · Democrat
“We must protect TPS recipients, safeguard due process, and ensure that no child grows up in fear of losing their parents to unjust deportation.”
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Protect Dreamers, TPS holders and mixed-status families from deportation

2 members
Adam Hamawy
House · NJ-12 · Democrat
“Un camino hacia la ciudadanía Millones de personas indocumentadas han construido sus vidas aquí. Merecen un camino alcanzable hacia la ciudadanía. Lucharé para proteger a los beneficiarios de DACA, a las familias de estatus mixto y a otros inmigrantes de la deportación mientras abogamos por una solución a largo plazo para nuestro sistema de inmigración roto.”

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Ben McAdams
House · UT-1 · Democrat
“We must protect TPS recipients, safeguard due process, and ensure that no child grows up in fear of losing their parents to unjust deportation.”
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Let deported veterans and others wrongly deported come back

2 members
Claire Valdez
House · NY-7 · Democrat
“Provide a clear path to Lawful Permanent Residence for our undocumented neighbors, for immigrants who were unjustly deported, and who chose to self deport rather than face the harsh and punitive Trump administration.”
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Randy Villegas
House · CA-22 · Democrat
“Bring home our deported veterans Trump and Valadao have overseen an administration where veterans, who have bravely served and made immense sacrifices for our country, have been deported. The cruelest part about this betrayal is that they are still entitled to a military funeral, so the only way many of them can come back home is in a casket. I will act with urgency to bring our veterans home, and fight for an immigration system that recognizes the dignity of everyone who has bravely served our country.”
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Stop deporting immigrants to Guantanamo and foreign prisons

1 member
Daniel Biss
House · IL-9 · Democrat
“Closing “Alligator Alcatraz” and Ending Trump’s Use of Foreign Prisons: We must shut down Trump’s immigrant prisons, ban him from sending immigrants to Guantanamo Bay, and stop him from sending immigrants to prisons in El Salvador, South Sudan, and other countries they aren’t even from. This depravity is a dark stain on our nation and must end immediately.”
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Raised the issue without a specific call

2 members
Victoria Broderick
House · TN-4 · Democrat
“I'll also demand accountability from immigration officers and officials, including real consequences for abuse of deportees and unlawful practices, and I'll push to close detention camps that have failed to meet basic standards of humane treatment.”
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Patty García
House · IL-4 · Democrat
“Patty has built coalitions by doing the work alongside the people most affected by broken systems. That has meant standing with immigrant families facing detention and deportation, helping tenants and homeowners navigate rising costs and displacement, and working with labor and community partners to secure resources for neighborhoods that have been locked out for too long.”
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