# The Trump deportation news thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [January 25, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404 "2025-01-25T23:58:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/201 "2025-02-14T02:47:00Z")
The Wall Street Journal did a roughly six minute YouTube video that details the cost of operations for Trump’s (largely) military aircraft as compared to the normal method of contracting civilian aircraft for deportation. Interesting. They also reached out to DOGE for comment on the apparent inefficiency of Trump’s preferred method. The DOGE response … is pretty much what you’d expect: > **[Why Trump’s Military Deportation Flights Are So Expensive | WSJ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNObnSDwWnI%2F%5C&feature=youtu.be)** > > President Trump’s administration started using C-17 military planes for deportations in January, signaling a hard line against migrants. A WSJ analysis of ai... ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/202 "2025-02-15T00:43:13Z")
“Well, heck, we’ve got all those military planes just sitting there! And we’re already paying the guys who fly them! Why not get some use out of them rather than paying some civilian airline to haul the scum away?” Am I close? ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/203 "2025-02-15T00:47:58Z")
Close 😉 [**This**](https://youtu.be/GNObnSDwWnI?t=314) should tee up the video to within a few seconds of the actual DOGE response (from the wife of White House ghoul, Stephen Miller). ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/204 "2025-02-15T00:51:38Z")
Good grief. That’s so far from the truth it’s in the orbit of Pluto and blasting away from the Sun. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/205 "2025-02-15T01:04:32Z")
And deportations in Trump’s first month are (drumroll please) DOWN from where they were in November. > **[Biden arrested more unauthorized immigrants than Trump has been able to: report](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-immigration-raids-2671157317/)** > > Axios reported Friday that in the month of November 2024, former President Joe Biden "arrested 21,000 unauthorized immigrants." Since taking over on Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump's office hasn't been able to reach those numbers "despite its... ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/206 "2025-02-15T03:21:27Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > And deportations in Trump’s first month are (drumroll please) DOWN from where they were in November. Looking at the [Axios story](https://www.axios.com/2025/02/14/trump-biden-immigration-arrests-ice-border), it is impossible to say if arrests are up or down: > [@](#): > > Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, said Homan’s arrest estimate was just for those done by ICE, though he didn’t make that distinction. > > She didn’t provide information about the arrest breakdown between ICE and CBP. There is a lot of fear. There have been a lot of false rumors of raids — at least one right near me. Here is a three-hour-old news story on a real Pennsylvania raid: > **['Let me call my wife': Video reportedly shows ICE raid in York City](https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/local/2025/02/14/let-me-call-my-wife-video-reportedly-shows-ice-raid-in-york-city/78658113007/#)** > > The video of a man being detained Friday morning by five masked men, reportedly ICE agents, ratcheted up anxieties in York City. Local police said they were not involved. I would think they are under pressure to arrest more people, but it is a bit harder to do now because migrants are expecting it. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/207 "2025-02-15T12:43:37Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > I would think they are under pressure to arrest more people, but it is a bit harder to do now because migrants are expecting it. [They have quotas](https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/26/ice-arrests-raids-trump-quota/). > The quotas were outlined Saturday in a call with senior ICE officials, who were told that each of the agency’s field offices should make 75 arrests per day and managers would be held accountable for missing those targets ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/208 "2025-02-15T16:13:21Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > [They have quotas](https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/26/ice-arrests-raids-trump-quota/). Yes. That quota is one of the few Trump administration statistics I believe. Whether quotas are met, I have no idea. I do know that law enforcement is being pulled away from the normal job of protecting Americans from real crime to addressing arbitrary quotas. [Interview with Senator Reuben Gallego](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/magazine/ruben-gallego-interview.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE4.J0-a.R__8lMKWO3oG&smid=url-share) > [@](#): > > Talking to people in Arizona, talking to ICE agents, it’s caused a lot of fear. Some of the ICE agents are very frustrated, because they feel that they’re put on to make an artificial quota. That they first were sent to go after hard-core criminals, and now they’re being pushed to just grab anybody. So, for example, in Arizona, they have a quota of 75 people per day. The frustration, I think, is also in the fact that there just isn’t really any coordination of need. So, for example, they’re bringing investigators off A.T.F., D.E.A. and H.S.I., who are actually going after real criminals, both U.S. citizens and non-U.S. citizens, and they’re just being thrown in here to essentially do a show of force. > > I think if Donald Trump actually wanted to get rid of these hard-core criminals, there is a way to do this, where you would have a lot of these undocumented families — the ones I’ve told you that have been here forever, the ones that have kids that are here — that will likely help you. But when you are trying to cast a wide net, you’re going to have everyone hide. And you’re going to end up probably making a lot of these criminals that are here illegally be able to get away with it. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/209 "2025-02-15T16:55:46Z")
Yeah, well, despite how they are trying to spin it target _is and always was_ brown people, not “hard core criminals” or even immigrants. This is about race war. Even if they don’t grab people because those people are hiding, they are spreading fear which is a satisfaction for them in its own right. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/210 "2025-02-21T01:32:49Z")
The “put the migrants in Gitmo” plan has apparently been abandoned or at least put on hold. > **[Trump Administration Abruptly Clears Out Migrants It Sent to Guantánamo](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/us/politics/guantanamo-venezuelans-trump-migrants.html)** > > A transfer operation on Thursday repatriated 177 Venezuelans via a handoff in Honduras, while one migrant was brought back to U.S. soil. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/211 "2025-02-21T03:04:10Z")
And now the Haitians are getting the boot. > **[Trump Cuts Protections for Haitians, Putting Them on Track for Deportation](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/us/politics/haitians-temporary-protected-status.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yk4.llLt.A1tzbjFi-J9y&smid=url-share)** > > The decision is the latest in President Trump’s sweeping crackdown on immigrants, including people whom the Biden administration had authorized to remain in the country. Sending these people back to Haiti is basically a death sentence. At least Noem didn’t shoot any of them in the face and throw them in a gravel pit. Yet. ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/212 "2025-03-13T16:08:53Z")
Things are about to heat up a bit more: > **[Trump expected to invoke wartime authority to speed up mass deportation...](https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/alien-enemies-act-deportation-consideration/index.html)** > > The Trump administration is expected to invoke a sweeping wartime authority to speed up the president’s mass deportation pledge in the coming days, according to four sources familiar with the discussions. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/213 "2025-03-16T18:04:05Z")
Here is a Trump voter who is complaining that his wife may be deported: **He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.** > Bradley Bartell and Camila Muñoz had a familiar small-town love story, before they collided with immigration politics. They met through mutual friends, had a first date at the local steakhouse, married after two years and were saving to buy a house and have kids. Muñoz was already caring for Bartell’s now 12-year-old son as her own. > > But last month, on their way home to Wisconsin after honeymooning in Puerto Rico, an immigration agent pulled Muñoz aside in the airport. > **[MSN](https://www.msn.com/)** ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/214 "2025-03-16T18:38:50Z")
But the leopards… _the leopards_… 😱 ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/215 "2025-03-16T18:50:25Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Here is a Trump voter who is complaining that his wife may be deported: The consequences of ignorant actions are often quite surprising to the ignoramus who performed them. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/216 "2025-03-16T20:16:25Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Here is a Trump voter who is complaining that his wife may be deported: Link to story: > **[He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/16/mass-deportation-ice-detains-non-criminals/82304354007/)** > > ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a US citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says. ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/217 "2025-03-16T21:08:21Z")
[https://www.axios.com/2025/03/16/judge-trump-admin-deported-doctor-despite-order](https://www.axios.com/2025/03/16/judge-trump-admin-deported-doctor-despite-order) ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/218 "2025-03-16T21:25:11Z")
> More than 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members have been deported from America to a supermax prison in El Salvador, even as a US judge blocked the removals. > **[US removes hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador despite court order to turn...](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9yv1gnzyvo)** > > El Salvador's president said 238 members of Tren de Aragua had been flown to the country's notorious mega-jail. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/219 "2025-03-16T22:43:56Z")
If it wasn’t clear before, it is now that the Mango Menace is an outlaw. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404/220 "2025-03-16T22:49:00Z")
Too bad there’s a statute of limitations on deporting underwear models with fraudulent Einstein visas. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-deportation-news-thread/1013404.md?page=12)