Big Policy Changes Needed to Meet Mass Deportation Goals

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

The Trump Administration is significantly off pace to meet the President's promise for the largest deportation operation in American history.

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... The Trump Administration is substantially off pace to "carry out the largest deportation operation in American history."

President Donald Trump set the goal for his Administration to exceed President Dwight Eisenhower's 1954 deportation program.

Eisenhower Administration Statistical Overview

In 1954 the Eisenhower Administration carried out an unprecedented deportation surge.

The operation

The Eisenhower Administration officially called it "Operation Wetback," using a derogatory term for Mexican nationals illegally crossing the Rio Grande into the United States.

responded to widespread problems from lack of compliance with a 1951 agreement between Mexico and the United States, one of a series of similar programs between 1942 and 1964, known as the Mexican Agricultural Labor Program or, colloquially, as the Bracero Program (bracero being Spanish for manual laborer). ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-30 12:24 AM | Reply

It's the incompetence.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-30 12:43 AM | Reply

"Big Policy Change Needed" = "Big Constitutional Violations and Stomping of Citizens Civil Rights Needed"

But then again, that's likely the point, isn't it?

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2025-12-30 12:43 AM | Reply

@#2 ... It's the incompetence. ...

If I may be allowed to expand that observation ...

It's the intentional cruelty of the incompetence.

Yeah, that's more how I view it.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-30 01:09 AM | Reply

@#3 ... But then again, that's likely the point, isn't it? ...

Yup.

I agree.

My concern is along the lines of... what will ICE look like, and how might ICE be acting two years from now?

imo, we are only at the beginning of a bad journey ...

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-30 03:32 AM | Reply

Axios Explains: Inside ICE's superpowers (June 2025)
www.axios.com

...The images of masked, heavily armed immigration agents snatching people off the streets and taking them away in unmarked cars have shocked many Americans -- and led to a simple question: Is all of this legal?

- - - It is -- at least for now.

Why it matters: Since Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was created after the 9/11 attacks, its agents have operated with vastly more enforcement power, less transparency and fewer guardrails than local police. ...

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-30 03:37 AM | Reply

@#6

So, that seems to be why Pres Trump has been using (and funding) ICE to enforce his his apparent dislike of non-whites.

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-30 03:39 AM | Reply

Umm ... how about going after the worst of the worst?

You promised the first groups you'd get rid of were the violent criminals and the gangs.

Instead, you picked up pastors, day laborers, janitors, and abuelas.

And have you ever gone after gangs or violent criminals? Ever? Anywhere?!?

#8 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-30 03:41 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#8 ... And have you ever gone after gangs or violent criminals? ...

Well, he did pardon a criminal convicted of trafficking over 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.

Does that count?

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-30 03:52 AM | Reply

"Well, he did pardon a criminal ... "

... who bribed him.

Let's not beat around the bush.

#10 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-30 03:56 AM | Reply