Because deporting causes paperwork. Disappearing is easier.
Perhaps he fired off people that would handle the paperwork efficiently…
Sort of odd to see this again (from Vox as well, I think?). It seems to add more detail, but the bottom line remains the same: it’s largely because fewer people are trying to immigrate into the U.S. since the Trump admin entered office.
Trump might struggle to ramp up deportations along the border, as Obama did, simply because significantly fewer people are coming. In March, border apprehensions fell to 7,181, a 95 percent decrease from March 2024.
This all sucks, and another part that sucks about it is that as usual, in the absence of as many of the Republicans’/conservatives’ favorite scapegoats, they begin turning inward and grabbing anyone and everyone that remotely resembles those scapegoats to abuse and deport to appeal to their base. Without more pushback, and as those deportation numbers continue to dwindle, you can expect that they’ll begin more widely rounding up their detractors (or at least attempting to).
And he’s not gonna shrink the federal workforce more than Bill did in the 90s…
Well, really Hillary was taking credit for it at the time, but even though they campaigned as a “two for one” people don’t want to give Hillary credit for all the damage she did as first lady.
Because he even sucks at being shitty.
It isn’t about the achieving the stated results (deportations), it’s about putting on a circus for his base and building himself a personal army built entirely of members of his personality cult.
Because the Trump administration is stacked with incompetent morons that could barely organize a parade, let alone a mass-deportation project.
