Trump Targets One Million Deportations in First Year, Negotiates With 30 Countries, ICE Reports 100,000+ Removals
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The Trump administration has set an internal goal of deporting one million undocumented immigrants within the first year of Donald Trump's current term, more than doubling the previous annual record of just over 400,000 deportations set during the Obama administration in 2012.
White House adviser Stephen Miller is leading daily strategy meetings with the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies to accelerate deportations, focusing in part on the 1.4 million immigrants with final removal orders who have not yet been deported, often because their home countries refuse to accept them. Vice President JD Vance has repeatedly stated the administration's intent to start with one million deportations.
To address the challenge of countries refusing to accept deportees, the administration is negotiating with up to 30 countries, including Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador, and Rwanda. Deportation flights to some of these countries have already begun, and members of gangs such as Tren de Aragua and MS-13 have been sent to El Salvador.
Legal and logistical challenges persist, including court backlogs of approximately 3.7 million cases for about 700 judges, and budget constraints. The administration has requested roughly $300 billion from Congress to expand enforcement capacity. The Alien Enemies Act has been invoked to expedite removals.
While arrests of undocumented immigrants have increased, with projections of around 240,000 arrests this fiscal year, actual deportations are expected to reach about 212,000 at the current pace. ICE reported more than 100,000 removals by late March, and the administration claims that self-deportation, including through the CBP-1 app, is on the rise.
The administration has introduced daily fines of nearly $1,000 for individuals with active deportation orders and has ceased publishing regular enforcement statistics, making independent verification of progress difficult. Border crossings have fallen to record lows, with 7,000 encounters reported in March.
Analysts and experts widely question the feasibility of reaching one million deportations in a single year due to operational, legal, and diplomatic constraints, as well as the current pace of removals and the backlog in immigration courts.
One million people deported, the Trump Administration's difficult objective for its first year. The figure is mentioned as the goal of the mass expulsion operation, but funding obstacles call into question whether it can be achieved
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Donald Trump wants to deport a million people in a single year, according to The Washington Post this is one of the president's objectives.
A figure that he didn't even reach during his first administration at the head of the White House. https://t.co/DtiM7s62O2
