Self-Deportation is Crucial to Undoing the Biden Illegal-Migrant Mess:
Two news items from last week point to where US immigration enforcement is headed: 1) the number of foreign-born people in the country fell by 1.5 million in the first six months of 2025, and 2) ICE is on track to deport just 400,000 illegal immigrants for the whole year.
The obvious conclusion: A lot more illegal migrants are self-deporting than being expelled — which is surely how most Americans want things to proceed, and a lot more practical than any kind of mass round-ups.
The Trump administration is increasing deportations: This year’s 400,000 is up from the last reported Biden annual total of 271,000 which itself reflected a belated effort to show greater toughness as Democrats finally admitted how badly their open-borders policies had angered voters.
But Team Trump’s fierce rhetoric matters plenty, too: sending a message to strongly override the “everybody come on in” signals of the prior four years.
See the feds’ plans to review the status of 55 million visa holders as yet another signal: a warning that those who’ve been abusing their visas — it’s time to acquire permanent legal status if you mean to stay permanently, or make plans to head home.
Prodding and persuasion were always going to be crucial in undoing the Biden mess: ICE — despite a big expansion of its budget and the firm support of the president — can’t detain and deport that many people. --->READ MORE HERE
Trump Admin Warns DACA Recipients To Self-Deport:
The Trump administration advised Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients to self-deport and warned that they are "not automatically protected from deportation."
Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of Homeland Security, told Newsweek the warning is "not new or news."
"Illegal aliens who claim to be recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals [DACA] are not automatically protected from deportations," she said. "DACA does not confer any form of legal status in this country. Any illegal alien who is a DACA recipient may be subject to arrest and deportation for a number of reasons, including if they've committed a crime."
Diana Crofts-Pelayo, a spokesperson for California Governor Gavin Newsom, whose state contains the highest number of DACA recipients, told Newsweek the move "highlights the Trump administration's hypocrisy" and shows that "they do not want to detain and deport the worst of the worst."
"Their chaos campaign is all about detaining and deporting as many people as possible without a regard to people's legal rights, including intercepting Americans, Dreamers, kids, people with legal protections and those following immigration rules and even U.S.-born citizens into their indiscriminate dragnet.," she said. "It's dangerous precedent when deportations matter more than basic rights or a functional U.S. immigration system."
Why It Matters
President Donald Trump pledged to undertake the largest mass deportation effort in U.S. history on the campaign trail and quickly moved to increase immigration enforcement upon his return to the White House. However, he has offered mixed signals on DACA.
Although Trump sought to end DACA during his first term, he told NBC News' Meet the Press last December that he wanted to find a way to allow DACA recipients to stay in the United States.
Former President Barack Obama introduced the DACA program in 2012. It offered protections and work authorization for undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children. But its legal status has remained in limbo for years, and the latest comments from the administration reflect the challenges faced by DACA recipients, commonly referred to as "Dreamers."
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