Trump is “struggling to increase deportations to fulfill” his campaign promise of a million expulsions in his first year, The Wall Street Journal said. Despite aggressive tactics and high deportation quotas, his administration has averaged “about 660 a day, compared with 742 a day in 2024.”
The Department of Homeland Security said Monday it would give $1,000 and a plane ticket home to any undocumented immigrants who opted to “self-deport,” calling the “historic” offer a “dignified way to leave the U.S.” Migrants who register for “voluntary self-deportation” through the Customs and Border Protection app will be “deprioritized for detention and removal,” DHS said, so long as “they are making meaningful strides” toward their departure.
Seems obvious to me that if you deport a lit of people, there are less people to deport. That’ll be a reason why so many justifications for deporting additional citizens.
Perhaps it’s likely that less people are entering the country now than were a year ago, what with the conditions there and all.