Trump promised to deport “millions and millions” and conduct the largest deportation effort in U.S. history while on the campaign trail. President Donald Trump’s administration is looking to use Defense Department funding to ramp up their effort to deport “millions and millions,” according to a new report. White House spokesperson Kush Desai told NBC News the Trump administration is “committed to delivering on the mandate that the American people gave to President Trump with a whole-of-government approach to secure our borders, enforce our immigration laws, mass deport criminal illegal migrants, and put America First.".
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One of these key factors is the Immigration and Customs Enforcement budget, which NBC News reports was already in a shortfall before Trump took office. For example, the agency has space to detain some 40,000 people, NBC News reports, limiting the administration’s ability to carry out their promise. The Trump administration has even asked Congress for additional funding, calling for $175 billion to go toward ICE.
This comes as Trump is reportedly “angry” that ICE agents aren’t working fast enough to meet his campaign promise of carrying out the largest deportation effort in U.S. history. However, the White House disputed the report, noting in a statement that the “Trump administration is aligned on securing our borders and ensuring that mass deportations are conducted quickly and effectively to put Americans and America First.”.
This reported quota still leaves the White House far from its goal, especially given the fact that not all arrests lead to charges or deportations. In order for the Trump administration to even reach 1 million deportations by the end of the year, the administration would have to start deporting 2,700 people every day, NBC News reports. The agency’s highest single-day total under Trump has been 1,100 arrests, according to numbers released by ICE on social media last week.
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