'Deportation Tok' Is Taking Off | People are uploading videos of their post-deportation life to TikTok and other platforms

As immigration raids roll out across the U.S., those affected are processing the experience in the normal 2025 way—via vertical video.

Across social media, people are uploading clips with uncanny-valley titles like “A normal day for me after being deported to Mexico” and “3 things I wish I knew before self-deporting from the US!” These posts have the normal shape, voiceovers, and fonts of influencer content, but their dystopian topic reflects the whiplash of the current historical moment.