Undocumented immigrants who participated in the 9/11 cleanup were deported by the George W. Bush administration.
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The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg ShowSep 12, 2026
No source directly reports that undocumented 9/11 cleanup workers were deported under the Bush administration, or how many were.
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… So there were an estimated 6,000 undocumented immigrants who participated in the recovery and cleanup, and an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 didn't have they remain without legal status. And so, in the years since then, many of them have been deported by George Bush. Some of them were deported. Some of them were deported by Obama. The victim compensation funds that paid for people to get medical medical treatment because they were exposed to asbestos and developed cancers later, none of those undocumented immigrants had …
The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. Sources document large-scale Bush-era deportations and worksite raids generally, but tie them to the broader immigrant population rather than to 9/11 cleanup workers specifically.[3][4]
Context. NBC reports that cleanup worker Cardona was issued a deportation order in 2001 after missing a court hearing, but he was able to stay because he was receiving medical treatment; this does not show he was deported.[1]
Context. NPR and WBUR describe cleanup workers living in fear of deportation today, and Democracy Now notes some workers died or returned to their countries; none attributes deportations of these workers to the Bush administration.[2][5][6]
Sources
6 sources: 2 tier 2, 4 not rated
- 1New York lawmakers push to legalize undocumented 9/11 workersnbcnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 2They rushed into the wreckage of 9/11. Now many live in ... - NPRnpr.org · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 3How Clinton and Obama Helped Build Trump's Mass Deportation Machinedallasobserver.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 4The New DHS Memoranda: A Humane New Approach to ... - OnLaboronlabor.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 520 Years Later, Undocumented Immigrants Who Aided 9/11 ...democracynow.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 6They cleaned up after 9/11. Now they face illness and ... - WBURwbur.org · not rated · cited for: context
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