President Trump's mass federal layoffs have resulted in a shortage of immigration judges and administrative staff, with over 100 officials either fired or leaving voluntarily. This move could create significant delays in the deportation process, hindering the administration's enforcement efforts. The president's immigration czar has expressed intentions to escalate deportation numbers, yet frustration is brewing within the White House regarding the pace of arrests. Comparatively, there has been a notable uptick in arrests since the start of Trump's term, but daily operations appear to be slowing down.
How do you deport people without immigration judges? It's highly hypocritical. It runs contrary to what he campaigned on. He's making it more difficult to deport people from this country. It makes no sense at all.
The latest dismissals and voluntary exits bring the total sum of departures to 43 immigration judges and 85 administrative staff... more than half of those who left did so after being incentivized under the Trump administration's deferred resignation program.
Trump border czar Tom Homan vowed to begin mass deportations of illegal immigrants on day one of Trump's second term in the White House in January.
So far, federal data shows that the administration has made nearly 23,000 arrests in the past month, up sharply compared with the Biden administration, but daily arrests have fallen since immigration agents exploded out of the gates.
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