What It Would Take to Deport Millions of Immigrants [View all]
When Donald Trump ran for president in 2016, he vowed to build a wall to seal the border and keep criminals from entering the country. This campaign season, his immigration agenda has a new focus: a mass deportation program unlike anything the country has seen.
His party’s platform, ratified at the Republican convention in Milwaukee, promises the “largest deportation effort in American history,” and immigration was the theme of Tuesday’s gathering.
What would it take to deport millions of people? Is it even possible?
How many immigrants are in the country illegally?
There were 11 million immigrants living in the United States without legal permission in 2022, according to the latest government estimates, and more than 8 of 10 have been in the country for more than a decade. Trump said during the debate last month that there were 18 million, which is unsubstantiated.
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