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The promise was mass deportation. The policy is carve-outs.

theblaze.com · 4h · first reportShare

Voters were not confused about what they were choosing in 2024. "Mass deportation" was not a line buried in a white paper. It was printed on signs, chanted at rallies, and repeated by the candidate himself. Americans who cast their ballots on that promise had every reason to believe it meant what it said. Nearly two years into this administration, it is fair to ask whether that promise is being kept. By the government's own numbers, it is falling short. Those numbers are not a failure of the men and women in the field. They are the result of decisions made well above them. As long as the jobs are there and the penalties for employers are weak, no amount of border rhetoric will change the math. I spent 24 years in federal immigration enforcement and retired as deputy field office director for ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations in New York City, the largest field office in the country. I know what it takes to move removal numbers, and it is not rhetoric. Removals are a pipeline: loca