Trump’s DHS leadership reforms should increase deportation targets for more people
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The change in leadership at the Department of Homeland Security is a good time to assess what should and should not change when it comes to two of President Donald Trump’s top campaign promises: border security and mass deportation.
The Trump administration quickly and effectively secured the border in its first year. Maintaining this is essential to prevent additional national security, public safety and economic threats from entering the US
With new DHS leadership, however, the administration can better pursue mass deportations. Limiting them to the “worst of the worst” results in only thousands of deportations, when at least 20 million deportable aliens were living in the US at the start of Trump’s second term. In this Phase 2, the management should open the hole to greatly increase the numbers of dismissals.
Candidate Trump has promised the largest deportation effort in American history, not just the worst criminals. America needs the administration to fulfill that promise to restore the rule of law, relieve American taxpayers of welfare, education, health care and other costs, and open up college and career opportunities for American students, graduates and workers who are excluded from foreign students, cheap labor and fraud.
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After the bombings in Iran, Americans are now wondering if Iranians and other terrorist cells, which have not faced barriers to entry into the country during the four years of President Joe Biden’s open borders, can open and commit terrorism in the US.
It is important to note that known and suspected terrorists often have no criminal history. In fact, they are often chosen because of their “clean” background. Thus, DHS will need to use other tools to identify and detect national security threats, including workplace enforcement, immigration screening and other government benefit programs, and financial accounts.
These and other instruments must be used equally with respect to all deportable aliens to achieve the promised and necessary mass deportations. Although self-deportation is an important tool, deportable aliens without rap sheets will not choose to leave on their own if they do not see the risk of DHS deporting them. As long as living in the US illegally is low risk, high reward, deportable aliens will continue to live here.
Therefore, DHS under new leadership must change that risk equation to make the continued stay high risk, low reward. Doing so requires revoking the work authorization of deportable aliens and enforcing the law against unauthorized workers and their employers, as well as preventing the remittance of ill-gotten gains out of the country.
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Carrying out mass deportations will draw more false claims from the left against ICE. During Trump’s second term, DHS and the White House have consistently and effectively countered ICE’s false allegations from the left, where they are being investigated. It is imperative that DHS continue to shoot down such false claims about the critical leftist facts that it deliberately omits.
But we also need more clarity from DHS about ICE deportation numbers. ICE used to report such data monthly but has not done so since the Trump administration took office in January 2025. And DHS has not reported how many aliens have used the CBP Home app to deport themselves.
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To give the American public confidence that DHS is actually deporting more people, the department should regularly report the number of removals within the US compared to border turns and maritime sanctions, as well as self-departures, including on-time and untimely departures, and the use of the CBP Home app.
The government, over the course of several administrations, has used different components and definitions to calculate displacement numbers. It is important to understand the approach of this administration to determine how well it is following through on President Trump’s signature campaign promise and legacy-defining policy.
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