It’s no secret by now that President Donald Trump is frustrated by the dismal failures of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE isn’t even coming close to a “mass deportation” effort. They only recently got the daily average up to 1,000 arrests. At this rate, there would be fewer deportations than in 2019, when Trump kicked 359,000 out.
President Trump has had it with this failure, so he dispatched White House advisor Stephen Miller to ICE headquarters this week. Miller dropped the hammer on them.
First Kenneth Genalo is out. He was ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) division. That’s the group in charge of arrests and deportations. Genalo “retired” suddenly, but we all know what that means. He’ll be replaced by career ICE official Marcos Charles.
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Acting Executive Associate Director Robert Hammer just got “reassigned.” HSI had been assisting ICE in arrests and deportations. He’s now been replaced with ICE official Derek Gordon.
But Miller wasn’t done with his hatchet just yet.
According to the now-official White House figures, the unelected Biden regime violated all our nation’s existing immigration laws to allow 21 million illegal aliens into the country in just four years. But we already know that there were at least 20 million illegals in the country when Trump left office in January 2021. By the most conservative estimates, we now have 41 million foreign invaders wrecking our country.
When Trump took office in January, he ordered ICE to begin deporting a minimum of 1,800 illegal aliens per day. They’ve never hit that target for a single day. They only just recently started averaging 1,000 per day. And that’s only because Florida law enforcement has been assisting. (At least we have one state taking this problem seriously.)
In the “tense” meeting at ICE this week, Miller informed the new leadership team that President Trump expects them to immediately ramp up to a bare minimum of 3,000 arrests and deportations per day. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was also at the meeting, but she sat there meekly while Miller brought the thunder.
In one story on the meeting, a reporter wrote, “How the two Trump advisors arrived at the figure [3,000 per day] is unclear.”
It’s perfectly clear if you can do basic math.
At a rate of 1,000 deportations per day, that would be 365,000 for the year. Meaning that ICE would have arrested and removed 0.008% of the illegal aliens in our country.
If you bump that up to 3,000 per day, it would total 1,095,000 deportations per year. Over four years, that would amount to more than 10% of the illegal alien population being deported.
Many additional millions will self-deport, as the administration continues cutting them off the welfare teat. On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that President Trump has the authority to strip the work permits away from 500,000 of Joe Biden’s illegals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
They can’t get jobs. They can’t collect welfare. They can no longer collect social security checks from the taxpayers (Thanks, Elon!).
The cats and the ducks in the park in Springfield, Ohio, will soon be safe again. No more will residents have to witness Haitian illegals spit roast Fluffy over an open flame in their back yard.
The southern border is a completely different story. It’s been sealed off by the Border Patrol and the US military. Nobody is crossing and the numbers have dropped back down to 1960s levels of illegal immigration.
The reason why so few illegals breached our border in the 1960s was because of President Eisenhower’s deportation effort. He kicked every illegal alien out of the country in just six months. They loaded up 3 million illegals, at a rate of 500,000 per month, and shipped them back home. And they did it using 1950s technology. They also didn’t need a $147 billion boost in funding from Congress, which ICE has received this year.
Now that was a mass deportation effort.
Even if ICE hits its 3,000-per-day target, it will only amount to 90,000 deportations per month. It’s truly baffling that they’re unable to do this.
