Trump scrambles to build deportation apparatus as Congress moves to fund it
President Donald Trump and his cabinet are racing to get mass deportations going, and are actively working to build the infrastructure and logistics networks to move tens of millions people while Congress prepares to provide more resources.
Early arrest figures from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) initially showed the agency on track to arrest roughly one million people by the end of Trump’s next four years. Trump has vowed to remove as many as twenty times that figure, but his administration’s current pace has slowed as the arrest volume has overwhelmed existing infrastructure.
Ramping up arrests, detention capacity, outbound flights, and logistics is certain to prove a costly undertaking and Trump has previously indicated “there is no price tag” for the effort. Despite the rhetoric, Congress will certainly need to approve some dollar amount and that process will prove complicated in the narrow divided chambers. In the meantime, Trump’s senior officials are doing all they can to speed up operations.
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