top | item 47037751

(no title)

aftbit | 13 days ago

Trump is up to ~3 million deportations now, while Obama did 3.1 million throughout his entire presidency. Obama's peak was 409k in 2012. Trump's peak was 605k in 2025. Unless this "concerted campaign" (i.e. broad based American public pressure) succeeds in changing Trump's strategy or reducing his power, he'll be well ahead of Obama before the midterms in 2026, let alone before the end of his presidency.

Once they chew through the undocumented people in America, I wonder where the DHS is going to find the other 80 or 90 million people to deport?

https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2006472108222853298

discuss

order

tracker1|12 days ago

Where did you get 80-90 million... Even the most bloated estimates are around 30 million people who entered illegally.

Also a majority of people still favor deportation of those who entered the IS illegally regardless of other criminal acts.

aftbit|10 days ago

The DHS post I linked says "America After 100 Million Deportations". If you assume there are 20 million people who entered the US illegally (which I believe is a substantial over-estimate), then that means they need to find another 80 million people to deport to meet that ridiculous goal. Who will those people be?

>a majority of people still favor deportation of those who entered the IS illegally regardless of other criminal acts.

I'm not so sure about this. I think it depends on whose polls you believe. Here's one from Fox News from July of 2025 (before the absolute SNAFU in Minneapolis) which claims:

>The latest Fox News survey, released Monday, finds 3 in 10 back deporting all illegal immigrants, while 6 in 10 supports only deporting those charged with crimes but would allow others to stay and apply for citizenship. One in 10 favors letting all illegal immigrants remain in the U.S.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-support-depor...