Tag: Mass Deportations

Trump and His Plans Are Popular — For Now

Buck Banks

53% to 47%

With most describing him as “tough,” “energetic,” “focused” and “effective” — and as doing what he’d promised during his campaign, a new CBS News poll finds President Trump has started his term with an approval rate of 53% to 47%. One takeaway: 59% of voters approve of mass deportation and 64% support sending troops to the U.S. Mexico border.

Immigration Courts Backlog Could Sow Trump’s Mass Deportations

Buck Banks

36 million

Time: “Currently there are 3.6 million cases pending before immigration judges, the largest number of pending cases in the history of the American immigration system. That is a 44% increase from the 2.5 million cases pending the year before. And the problem is only getting bigger, as more people continue to be put into deportation proceedings.”

Mass Deportations Threaten U.S. Economy

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From CNBC:

“A labor market boosted by immigration after the Covid pandemic faces a threat from President-elect Donald Trump’s plan for mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.”

“Foreign-born workers have been taking open positions in sectors from construction and agriculture to technology and health care, fields where hiring companies have struggled to find domestic labor. Immigrant workers made up 18.6% of the workforce last year, a new record, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.”

“The timing and scope of Trump’s plan remains to be seen, but companies and economists are trying to figure out how much the deportations could hurt the U.S. economy.”

Homan Picked to Fulfill Trump’s Promise of Mass Deportations

Buck Banks

“We’re going to concentrate on the worst of the worst… It’s going to be a lot different to what the liberal media is saying it’s going to be.”

— Tom Homan, who oversaw Trump’s controversial family separation policy as acting ICE director, said the enforcement will be the “same as it was during the first administration” but Americans can expect “a hell of a lot more” deportations this time, reports the Sunday Times of London.

Trump Has Deported Fewer than Obama

Buck Banks

260,000

Washington Post: “Though President Trump has made cracking down on immigration a centerpiece of his first term, his administration lags far behind President Barack Obama’s pace of deportations. Obama — who immigrant advocates at one point called the ‘deporter in chief’ — removed 409,849 people in 2012 alone. Trump, who has vowed to deport ‘millions’ of immigrants, has yet to surpass 260,000 deportations in a single year.”