The article discusses the ongoing struggles of Donald Trump and Stephen Miller's mass-deportation initiative, which has fallen short of its goals amid dwindling public support. Although Trump aimed for one million deportations in his first year, only around 113,000 arrests and 100,000 deportations have occurred. This shortfall has negatively impacted Trump's job approval ratings on immigration, previously his strongest issue. In contrast, border crossings have significantly decreased, reaching the lowest levels since 2000, indicating some success in reducing illegal immigration despite the challenges in deportation efforts.
During the 2024 campaign, Trump talked about deporting all undocumented immigrants and mentioned numbers like 15 to 20 million people.
Trump's job-approval ratings on immigration - once his 'best issue' - have been going underwater everywhere you look and in turn are pushing down his overall popularity.
By the end of March, Trump will have overseen 113,000 arrests and 100,000 deportations, according to the highest estimates available.
The number of tracked illegal crossings at the southern border in March - 7,181 - marked the lowest total since Border Patrol started releasing monthly statistics in 2000.
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