Numbers do not show mass deportation of migrants, although immigration has submitted

A promise to deport millions of undocumented immigrants contributed to driving President Donald Trump to the White House.

“It is called Trump mass deportation,” said Trump on August 12, 2024 during a campaign rally. “We will start the greatest deportation operation in American history.”

He appointed a border tsar, Tom Homan to increase the trigger.

“I will carry out the biggest deportation process that the country has ever seen,” said Homan a week after Trump won the election.

The Trump government has recorded a shock and awe to enforce immigration for maximum public relations. The secretary for home protection took part and published a video with arrests in the early morning by immigration and customs authorities. Trump used more armed forces at the border and used military aircraft to travel away immigrants. He also sent alleged members of the Venezuelan gangs to a terrorist prison in El Salvador before they could have a day in court.

However, the federal data show that office has been deported to immigrants since Trump. Mass shifts have not occurred. The numbers show that the distances during the Biden administration remain behind the levels.

“To be honest, I was shocked,” said Sue Long, co -founder of the impartial transaction records Access Clearinghouse, which is pursuing immigration statistics at Syracuse University.

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Early in the Trump government, the number of daily immigration lenses advertised, but never divided detailed deportation figures.

Long was able to use a cumulative number to be deeply committed to the recent deportation figures in a table that is required by law in order to stay up to date for the congress.

“They are lower,” said Long. “Your daily average is simply 10 percent lower.”

The White House announced Scripps News that because border crossings have dropped, as well as deportations. It is an argument that Homan also does.

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“We are 96 percent of border crossings, so we have no millions of people across the border,” Homan told reporters in the White House. “Just to compare our distance numbers with (bids) is just ridiculous.”

Homan also told the New York Times: “We have to increase the arrests … they are not high enough.”

There are still an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country.

According to Homan, more funds in the congress would increase the enforcement effort of immigration. The costs are high to arrange and transport individuals from the USA to their home countries. Logistics is another challenge because the countries have to agree to obtain deported immigrants.