Large-scale detention, workplace raids, military support: How Trump’s mass deportation could unfold
January 17, 2025 | by Deshvidesh News

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to ramp up immigration enforcement on taking office and to launch a mass deportation operation that could affect a record numbers of migrants.
The US Department of Homeland Security estimated there were 11 million immigrants lacking a legal status in 2022.
Trump wants to remove a million undocumented people a year, according to Vice President-elect JD Vance – and would begin his clampdown almost immediately upon taking office.
Yet while the Republican president-elect has said his ambitions are unprecedented in scope, he must still follow a specific process, as outlined in US law.
Moreover, the president cannot make any new laws – beyond the powers specifically given to him by the Constitution or Congress – by simply issuing an executive order.
What’s deportation
Deportation entails the expulsion of immigrants.
The United States typically enforces it on those who entered the country illegally, violated its laws, overstayed a visa or are deemed a threat to public safety.
Most deportations are for civil immigration infractions rather than criminal violations.
Deportation figures have fluctuated significantly over the years, exceeding 100,000 a year in the mid-1990s and mostly rising ever since.
Trump deported some 1.5 million people in his first term of 2017 to 2021, a figure nearly matched under outgoing President Joe Biden – including a record 271,000 in fiscal year 2024.
How does it typically work
Anyone facing…
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