Posted on 04/26/2025 8:18:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
While it is encouraging to see the Trump administration shut down the southern border and deport a few plane loads of violent, gang-affiliated illegal aliens, it is a drop in the proverbial bucket.
There are, by most conservative estimates, between 20 and 30 million illegal immigrants currently residing in the U.S. If the Trump administration were to deport 10,000 per week, it would take over thirty-eight years to deport them.
Judging by the federal judiciary’s activism since Trump assumed office, we can expect legal challenges to each and every deportation order. With this in mind, we could double the time expected to deport the illegal immigrants and project a finish line in about 76 years. Since this time period exceeds the life expectancy of nearly every person alive in the country today, perhaps it would be most prudent to wait for the illegal aliens to die.
But there is a better way: enforce existing law, and it has the future of making sure the illegal immigrants will deport themselves.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The largest employers of illegals are still agriculture, food processing, and construction. Those were the industries that have consistently opposed any effort to actually hold employers accountable for employing the illegal alien, and Republicans have consistently held that enforcing sanctions against employers is anti-business and anti-Republican.
“Get back to me when you find 150,000 illegal aliens removed.”
I told you not to come back until you can properly read the chart.
Don’t get back to me until you find a link to official data from ICE reporting 150,000 illegal aliens removed in 2025.
You really blew it with your misrepresentation if the ICE data.
First, it was not 2025 as you stated. It was FY 2025. First quarter of FY 2025 started October 2024.
And the data on the chart does not include 2025 data. That means that it does not include data while Trump has been in office.
Does 'Finish 2000' keep the bodies from staining the truck's paint when the excess gangers are strapped to the hood or is there a better protective product available? What with 3-D printing becoming widespread I don't think ears alone are going to pass for proof anymore.
You really blew it with your misrepresentation if the ICE data.First, it was not 2025 as you stated. It was FY 2025. First quarter of FY 2025 started October 2024.
And the data on the chart does not include 2025 data. That means that it does not include data while Trump has been in office.
You really screwed up. I am fully aware that it was FY2025 data. It very explicitly states it was FY 2025 data. It is reported by FY, not CY.
A quote of the readout on the chart data states:
Criminality: Criminal Conviction
Date (Years): FY 2025
Removals: 17,157Criminality: Pending Criminal Charges
Date (Years): FY 2025
Removals: 6,369Criminality: Other Immigration Violator
Date (Years): FY 2025
Removals: 47,879
As I asked previously:
Do you have any source whatever for your asserted data of 150,000 removals of "criminal illegal aliens?"
You still seem bashful about providing your source, so I will provide your probable source.
You are the one with the bullshit data as you just admitted. The most recent data from ICE is the Q1 Data from FY2025. The Trump administration has released no official data for CY2025, or Q2 FY 2024. That means that there is no official data for you to link, cite or quote for your magic "150,000" nonsense for "criminal illegal alien" deportations.
But do carry on making a public fool of yourself.
Presumably, the source for your fictional number is Kristi Noem who fabulated about her accomplishments.
[extract]
In her 50-second monologue, she made a claim that drew scrutiny.“Since President Trump has been in office – just a few short weeks – we have arrested and deported over 150,000 individuals, many of them incredibly dangerous, (so) that now communities are much safer,” Noem said.
Not all share your apparently limitless gullibility.
Another extract:
Migrant apprehensions at the Southwest border have been falling since last June and have outright plummeted since Trump took office on Jan. 20. U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported barely 7,181 migrant encounters in March, a 95 percent decrease from the 137,473 apprehended in March 2024.The previous month, February 2025, border apprehensions totaled only 8,346.
Critics surmised that this would require the administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to deport a massive number of people from the country’s interior.
“I do not believe this number is an ICE arrest number. There have been 93 full days since (the) inauguration. One-hundred and fifty thousand would mean average daily ICE arrests of 1,613,” tweeted Aaron Richlin-Melnick, an immigration attorney and senior fellow at the American Immigration Council.
He said reports suggest ICE has struggled to reach a goal of 1,000 arrests per day.
“So, something fishy is going on here,” he said.
In a report released on Thursday, the nonpartisan Washington, D.C.-based Migration Policy Institute said ICE arrests have more than doubled from an average of 310 a day in 2024 to 650 a day as of mid-March.
Reichlin-Melnick later said ICE arrests plus CBP encounters potentially add up to the 150,000 Noem touted.
“Of course, using CBP inadmissible data in a tally of ‘arrests’ is deceptive since it includes people with visa issues turned around at the border at land and air ports-of-entry — and that’s quite a high number, around 20,000 a month,” Reichlin-Melnick tweeted. “It would be 40 percent of Noem’s 150,000 figure.”
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trump-2-immigration-first-100-days
In First 100 Days, Trump 2.0 Has Dramatically Reshaped the U.S. Immigration System, but Is Not Meeting Mass Deportation AimsApril 24, 2025 By Muzaffar Chishti and Kathleen Bush-Joseph
Greater border enforcement and mass deportations were two major pledges made by Donald Trump as he campaigned to reclaim the White House. In its first 100 days, his administration has raced to meet those goals and so many others, issuing a flurry of immigration-related executive actions—at a pace nearly sixfold greater than during the same period in the first Trump term. The administration has tapped the military, federal agencies and databases, and state and local law enforcement, as well as invoked archaic laws previously used only in wartime to accomplish the most sweeping immigration enforcement policy changes in U.S. history. It also has situated immigration enforcement at the heart of its dealings with Mexico, Canada, and other countries in the Western Hemisphere and beyond, marking a sharp shift in U.S. foreign policy.
Even as the number of immigration arrests is up significantly, the current pace of deportations suggests the administration will fall well short of its stated goal of 1 million deportations annually. While the government has not released official data in comprehensive fashion, based on Federal Register notices and selective information shared with news organizations it appears on track to deport roughly half a million people this year—fewer than the 685,000 deportations recorded in fiscal year (FY) 2024 under President Joe Biden. As it has sought to increase removals, the Trump administration shook up leadership at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after just a month in office.
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To credit the Noem bullshit, and your enhanced bullshit, one must include those turned away at the border as arrests and deportations, and add your own fabulation that every turnaway was a "criminal illegal alien."
Get back to me when you have official data that is not complete bullshit.
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