The Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign is surging, with more than 389,000 illegal immigrants already removed from the United States, The Daily Wire has learned.
As of Tuesday, the feds had also arrested more than 415,000 illegal immigrants, Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Daily Wire.
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Federal immigration authorities are now on track to deport close to 600,000 illegal immigrants by the end of Trump’s first year in office.
While the latest deportation numbers outpace the previous fiscal year — when 271,000 illegal immigrants were removed from the United States — they still fall short of the administration’s goal of carrying out 1 million deportations each year.
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Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons recently told The Daily Wire that the agency is likely to meet its goal with the help of the administration’s efforts to push illegal immigrants to self-deport.
“I think we’re going to see our number, definitely with the CBP Home app and those that decided to leave on their own,” Lyons said.
Still, Lyons acknowledged that liberal judges “opining” from the bench have successfully created “roadblocks” that are “impeding how we’re doing our law enforcement mission.”
“Every day it seems like we have some type of adverse decision that’s going to affect how we’re doing our job,” Lyons said.
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The Trump administration has offered to pay for the commercial flights of illegal immigrants who opt to leave the United States, handing them each an additional $1,000 bonus for choosing to depart. Thus far, 1.6 million illegal immigrants have departed the country on their own, according to DHS.
“After successfully ending the invasion of our country and securing our southern border, President Trump established the visionary Project Homecoming in May to create a smooth, efficient process for illegal aliens to return home,” McLaughlin said, referring to the administration’s push for illegal immigrants to self-deport.
“By using the CBP Home App, illegal aliens will receive a complimentary one-way plane ticket home, a $1,000 exit bonus, and forgiveness of any fines previously assessed for failure to depart. Tens of thousands of illegal aliens have utilized the CBP Home app, and 1.6 million illegal immigrants have left the United States population since January 20,” she added.
The Trump administration in recent months has deployed additional ICE officers and agents to Chicago in what has been dubbed the “Midway Blitz,” along with Washington, D.C., and Memphis, as part of a massive crime crackdown.
