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:
“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?
Close 
This should tee up the video to within a few seconds of the actual DOGE response (from the wife of White House ghoul, Stephen Miller).
Good grief. That’s so far from the truth it’s in the orbit of Pluto and blasting away from the Sun.
And deportations in Trump’s first month are (drumroll please) DOWN from where they were in November.
Looking at the Axios story, it is impossible to say if arrests are up or down:
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:
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.
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
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.
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.
The “put the migrants in Gitmo” plan has apparently been abandoned or at least put on hold.
And now the Haitians are getting the boot.
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.
Things are about to heat up a bit more:
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.
But the leopards… the leopards… 
The consequences of ignorant actions are often quite surprising to the ignoramus who performed them.
Link to story:
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.
If it wasn’t clear before, it is now that the Mango Menace is an outlaw.
Too bad there’s a statute of limitations on deporting underwear models with fraudulent Einstein visas.