https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/02/how-border-apprehensions-ice-arrests-and-deportations-have-changed-under-trump/
WORTH A READ. Doing ok, but room for improment. As it stands removals were higher under barry.
Trump said his administration would deport as many as 3 million unauthorized immigrants with criminal records living in the United States.
The number of migrant apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border rose in fiscal 2019 to its highest annual level in 12 years. The 851,508 apprehensions recorded last fiscal year (October 2018-September 2019) were more than double the number the year before (396,579) but still well short of the levels in the early 2000s, according to CBP, the agency tasked with enforcing immigration laws at the border.
The number of interior arrests made by ICE (known as “administrative arrests”) rose 30% in fiscal 2017 after Trump signed an executive order giving the agency broader authority to detain unauthorized immigrants, including those without criminal records. They went up again in fiscal 2018 but decreased in fiscal 2019 and remain far lower than during President Barack Obama’s first term in office.
(I think this may be due to the stay im mexico policy, but I don't know) But ICE pointed to “the lack of cooperation from an increasing number of jurisdictions nationwide,” a reference to “sanctuary cities” that have policies in place to limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement authorities.
FOR TRUMP ADMIN TO DEPORT MORE THAN BARRY WE HAVE TO GET RID OF SANCTUARY CITIES.
Deportations of unauthorized immigrants.
removals of unauthorized immigrants, a 17% increase from the previous year, according to the Department of Homeland Security. But removals remained below the levels recorded during much of the Obama administration, including a three-year period between fiscal 2012 and 2014 when there were more than 400,000 per year. SINCE 40 MILLION ILLEGALS ARE ESTIMATED, THIS IS AN AREA WHERE WE CAN STEP UP OUR GAME.