FWD.us Launches “Losing Status,” a First-of-Its-Kind Tool Tracking Loss of Legal Status Under Trump Administration

New public tool highlights how recent policies revoking all legal statuses for nearly 1 million people, including deportation protections & work permits, are putting families, workers, & the economy at risk

Washington, D.C. – Today, FWD.us is launching “Losing Status: How Efforts to Revoke Legal Status is Impacting the U.S. Economy,” a data tool that provides up-to-date tracking of the Trump administration’s efforts to preemptively revoke legal status and work permits from hundreds of thousands of immigrants. The tool provides a new estimate of the people who have lost legal status, the industries in which they work, and the broader economic impact on American families resulting from efforts to expand the number of people without protections. This tool will track current and announced efforts to revoke the status of people with immigration parole, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), Deferred Action for Labor Enforcement (DALE), other temporary statuses, as well as those currently in the asylum backlog, and more.

“From preemptively revoking parole protections for Venezuelans who came to the U.S. through a lawful pathway to fighting in court to end TPS for Afghans and send people back into the hands of the Taliban, the Trump administration is pursuing an unprecedented effort to revoke legal status from millions of people. Through Losing Status, we’re providing a data-driven tool that puts hard numbers to the Trump administration’s unprecedented efforts to revoke legal status from immigrants who, under any other circumstance, would be working, contributing to the economy, and living in safety and with lawful protections,” said FWD.us President Todd Schulte. “These policy changes don’t just affect individual lives; they are destabilizing families, disrupting entire industries, and driving up costs for all Americans. By September, nearly 1 million people will have their status revoked. This tool will give the public, lawmakers, and the media another painful proof point of the scale and impact of these deeply harmful policies.”

As of January 2025, an estimated 6.4 million immigrants in the U.S. had temporary protections. This number included individuals with DACA, TPS, humanitarian parole, pending U or T visa applications, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) deferrals, and active asylum claims. By September, FWD.us estimates that nearly 1 million people will have been stripped of all temporary protections and legal status, meaning they will be made ineligible to work and subject to deportation. More than 5 million individuals continue to have some kind of protected status for now, mainly due to approximately 3.6 million active asylum claims. Many of these individuals seeking asylum have recently lost other statuses they previously held, such as parole or Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

Six months into President Trump’s second term, his administration has enacted a broad set of policies aimed at narrowing or revoking all legal protections for entire communities—including both recently vetted arrivals who utilized legal migration pathways and deeply-rooted families who have been living in the U.S. for decades. These actions have put hundreds of thousands of vetted, legally present workers, like Afghan or Haitian TPS recipients, at risk of deportation, removing critical segments of the U.S. workforce.

FWD.us analysis shows that revoking protections and deporting workers in essential industries could drive up costs and services for American consumers by billions of dollars, fueling an affordability crisis already hitting families nationwide. Specifically, recent and proposed immigration policies will result in American families paying an additional $2,150 for goods and services each year by the end of 2028, equivalent to the average American family's grocery bill for three months or their combined electricity and gas bills for the entire year.

The Losing Status launch is part of FWD.us' “Protect America’s Workforce” initiative, which aims to ensure that policymakers and the public understand the consequences of dismantling programs or policies that provide deportation protections for eligible individuals, allowing them to support their loved ones and contribute more fully to the U.S. economy.

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