I’ve got something here for both the Plan Trusters and Plan Skeptics.
The Plan Trusters can hang their hat on the fact that Trump has secured the border which is quieter than it has been in decades although this could potentially change because of that federal judge striking down Trump’s asylum policy. As I have previously noted, this has dried up the pool of easy to deport illegal aliens which padded Biden and Obama’s deportation numbers with returns at the border. It doesn’t mean Biden was better than Trump. It just means more people were coming across every day when he was president and those people are no longer arriving en masse like in Del Rio, TX.
The Plan Doubters can hang their hats on the fact that mass deportations still aren’t happening five months into Trump’s second term. The daily numbers are so pathetic that DHS stopped reporting them. Granted, it is much harder to deport illegals from the interior who have court hearings and interior deportations are up over the Biden administration, but this is still far from satisfactory.
“TIJUANA, Mexico — When President Donald Trump pledged to launch the “largest deportation operation in American history,” this border city swung into action. The local government declared a state of emergency. Federal authorities built a shelter for up to 2,600 deportees, complete with beds, showers and white-coated chefs.
It was, one local official said, the “zombie apocalypse scenario.”
But five months after Trump took office, the shelter is nearly empty. So few deportees have arrived — an average of 38 a day — that one of the two floors has been mothballed.
The situation is similar in other Mexican border communities. While the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration arrests have sparked protests in Los Angeles and other U.S. cities, some of the migrants’ home countries have been surprised how few have been sent back.
“The reality is, up until now, there haven’t been mass deportations,” said Mónica Vega, the Baja California state official in charge of the Tijuana reception center. …
In Latin America, some countries were startled to realize they were receiving fewer deportees from the United States, not more. The number arriving in Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia in the first five months of this year dropped more than 30 percent from the same period in 2024, according to data from their migration agencies. …”
What’s the cope?
The cope is that Trump signed the Big Beautiful Bill into law which will create a beefed up ICE which will be funded for four years and which in theory should lay the foundation for mass deportations. It will obviously take time to hire new ICE agents and build deportation camps. There won’t be any immediate change in daily deportations numbers, but those should start to rapidly accelerate.
The bottom line here is that there are no more excuses moving forward. The Trump administration has the political support from the public and the resources to do mass deportations. They can’t fallback anymore on the excuse that the administration is hamstrung by Biden era resources.
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