Reality Check: Mass Deportation Is a Pipe Dream The Trump administration has ramped up raids and saber-rattling, but let’s cut through the fog—this won’t come close to removing even a quarter of the estimated 18 million illegal aliens currently in the U.S. Not because the feds lack the will, but because the system itself chokes on its own red tape. Even if they doubled the current pace, they'd barely match Bush-era numbers, let alone Obama’s 2013 peak of 430,000 deportations. At best, we're looking at around 4 million deportations over the next term—a figure that barely scratches the surface and certainly doesn’t match MAGA slogans. The Dirty Secret: Government Is Bad at This ICE agents aren't known for their hustle.…
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