Hmmm..159,000 from 2008 to 2011 is 2,800 per week.
This week, ICE got 86.Last week they got 46. That’s 66 per week.
My math may be rusty, but isn’t 66 less than 2,800?
Previous administration counted people who were turned back at the border as actual deportations to pad their numbers. In other words, numbers from those years are fiction.
There are a lot of deportations going on, anyone already under deportation orders is fair game and many are being rounded up nation wide. Many have been here years since being ordered to be deported by an immigration court. Gathering up random illegals not already under deportation orders requires giving them a hearing and the previous administration made sure there was a backlog in immigration courts that kept new cases from being heard for years.
New deportations facilities are being built, and staffed with additional immigration judges so the backlog can be broken and deportations of all illegals can proceed.