It looks like even the Orange Man is impatient with the pace of deportations.
Caleb Vittelo wasn’t fired…..
The Trump administration has removed the top official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement one month into his tenure, as White House officials have turned increasingly frustrated the agency isn’t arresting immigrants fast enough to satisfy the president’s deportation goals.
Caleb Vitello, a veteran ICE official who was installed as acting director when President Donald Trump took office, will be reassigned to a senior role overseeing daily enforcement operations, according to Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.
Vitello is “no longer in an administrative role” and would remain in charge of “finding, arresting, and deporting illegal aliens, which is a major priority” of the president and DHS Secretary Kristi L. Noem, McLaughlin said. She did not say who would replace Vitello as ICE acting director.
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I read that as Vitello won’t be doing paperwork and will instead focus on actual operations. On the flip side, it shows that Trump is giving these guys a pretty short leash when it comes to showing results.
The prior post on the seeming lack of focus on deportations in favor of DOGE, Deportation > DOGE, got a lot of reaction here and on Substack. I get what people are saying and I will add this. ICE is moving from an outfit that mostly was processing people through the system for bullshit “asylum hearing” dates that they never are going to show up for, and turning back into a law enforcement organization and that is taking some time.
Something even more pertinent to the question. Under the best of circumstances, actual deportations in the sense of an illegal being rounded up by law enforcement and forcibly removed from the country is an enormous undertaking. We have tossed numbers around but by any measure the total illegal alien population in America exceeds 20 million with the more realistic number being north of 30 million. But this is what Tom Homan is talking about…..
700,000 “criminal illegal aliens”? All illegal aliens are criminal, the word illegal is right in the name. With 700,000 illegal aliens that are presumably violent criminals, divided by the total number of days in the Trump second term of 1,461, that works out to 479 violent criminals being deported per day. The problem is that 700,000 illegals is only around 3.5% of the conservative estimate of 20 million total illegals in this country. To deport even 10 million would require almost 7,000 deportations per day and that is far higher than even the aggressive goals set by Vitello last month:
In late January, Vitello told ICE’s 25 field office directors they should arrest at least 75 immigrants per day for a national daily total of 1,200 to 1,500. ICE officers have been working six and even seven days per week since then, but Trump border czar Tom Homan and Noem have blamed agency officials for missing their targets. Homan did not respond to a request for comment.
ICE averaged more than 800 arrests per day nationwide in late January in the ten days after Trump took office, publishing its results on social media amid a publicity campaign that invited television crews to embed with officers. The pace of arrests slowed during the first two weeks of February to fewer than 600 daily, however, and ICE stopped publishing data on social media, saying it would move to a monthly format.
Current and former ICE officials said the enforcement blitz in late January depleted the lists of targets ICE developed before Trump took office with the names, addresses and other data on immigrants they could arrest. Officer teams have not had time to build out new target lists.
Officers have also struggled to meet their quotas because immigrants are refusing to open their doors when ICE officers knock. The enforcement teams generally do not possess criminal arrest warrants that would allow them to force their way into their targets’ homes. ICE officials say they can’t afford to leave teams of officers waiting around for targeted immigrants to exit their homes.
At 1,200 per day that only works out to less than half a million per year or around 1.7 million total in 4 years. That is barely making a dent in the total that needs to go and make no mistake, they all need to go. Not just the ones that have committed crimes subsequent to sneaking into the country, all of them.
In order to deport even 20 million people, ICE would need to deport 5 million per year or over 13,000 per day or 570 per hour, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. That is not really feasible so what to do?
Keep deporting people.
Make it public. Make a big production of it. Show ICE raiding businesses and handcuffing people. Show flights leaving the country even though that is an extraordinarily inefficient way to get rid of these people.
Then do a LOT more of this….
I have always said that if you want to get rid of the illegals, you have to start putting the people hiring illegals in jail. If you jail people for breaking Federal laws, they will stop employing those illegals. No work means no money means no real reason to stay here, especially if they are worried about getting swept up in ICE raids. Don’t let their kids attend public schools funded by American citizens. In summary, take away the incentives for coming here and staying here and ramp up the downsides like being unable to work at all and not getting free schooling for your kids.
Illegals come here because the benefits outweigh the negatives like having to get to and then across the border, being made to work long hours for substandard pay, often at crappy jobs, living in constant fear of being caught, etc. Despite a lifestyle that sounds horrible to you and me, they come anyway because they can make more money than what they are able to earn at home in Mexico or wherever, they are safer, they get free benefits and their kids get access to free schooling. Any little Pedros or Juanitas they have while here get the golden ticket, American citizenship. There are just too many incentives for illegals.
Get rid of those incentives and make it as unpleasant as possible for illegals and many will deport themselves. Something most normies all across the political spectrum don’t understand:
These illegal aliens or “undocumented migrants” or whatever you call them have no connection to America.
They aren’t here because they love America and they certainly don’t love Americans. They are not “natural conservatives” and they don’t share our values, nor do they want to. America isn’t their home, it is a place they come to make money so they can send it back to wherever they actually call home. Most have no more affection for America, no more connection to the American story, than a cloud of locust eating a field of corn has to the farmer.
Forcible deportations won’t get 30 million illegals out of here but used publicly in tandem with locking down the border, making it impossible to get work here, preventing the children of illegals from filling our schools and whatever else you can think of might be enough to get a steady stream of mestizos, Haitians and whatever else to decide to leave here and go back home. The message should be loud and clear:
You are no longer welcome here. Get. The. Fuck. Out.
If Trump should ask, I would happily take on the role of “Making Illegals Terrified Again” czar.
Don’t forget healthcare. Shows up at ER, bust ’em. Sanctuary city/state? Mayor or Governor in jail for aiding/abetting. Oh, and every politician that votes for anything supporting them being hear. Jail. No quarter enforcement.
That’s been true for decades…one of our kids got dinged up and when he went to the ER. there were 9 illegals already there…They took him first, because we would pay, while the others meant a long wait for Medicaid payments that might never comr. our State being broke….
Yes, but there is a network effect to this as well. Even better than forcible deportation is self deportation. They can go back on their own dime before la migra has to pick them up. The more we get rid of, the less of a crowd they can hide in, and the more likely they are to go back before we have to arrest them.
I agree with the self deportation angle. Shut off all financial aid vectors, every single one, schools included. Can’t make any shekels here they will naturally be inclined to go home. Added benefit is a smaller chance of wide spread kinetic response as it will affect them in waves spread out a bit. Kinetic responses obviously should be met with overwhelming force as to discourage further shows of resistance to the inevitable.
An easy way to do this is Clean Out the Jails. In Prison, ‘Convicted’ or Not, and Not a Citizen? Load them onto the Bus and take them to the Airport. Non-Citizens should have NO RIGHTS AT ALL to access to the Courts. Do a Crime, GONE.
And IMO, the Fastest Way to ‘make an Example of’ Employers, is to go after the CEO’s of both Tyson Foods and Hormel – the Industrial, Chicken/Pork Companies. Never Mind the Plant Managers, Bust the C-Suite guys, Hard.
exactly. hit a meat packing plant every day, there’s your couple thousand a day…………
Ah, but not just the meat packing plant by itself; before you even hit the plant, hit the labor contracting agency (the meat packer’s excuse as to why they were not responsible). There’s gold in them thar hills, mountains of evidence flowing both ways: one, toward the knowing complicity of the meat packing plant’s executive; two, back towards those responsible for channeling the illegals toward the labor contracting agency. Pull on those threads, take meticulous care to cart off the evidence from the labor contracting organization, and then, bucko, ask yourself how you spell RICO.
Also, first parties to talk get a plea deal, those who follow, well, they don’t.
If possible before raiding either the meat packing plant, or the labor contracting agency, secure injunctions against the destruction of evidence (something reputedly going on at the FBI, for instance…). Have to be discrete in smelling out who these labor contractors even are that you will need to target, otherwise the evidence destruction will precede any presentation of injunctions as soon as they sense raids coming.
Here’s a fun one, as posted on Matt Bracken’s Gab: 65% of college educated black women work for the government. Government payrolls are literally WELFARE for black women with degrees. SMH…Bannon’s War Room reported today that the ranks of fedgov facing accountability for the first time in their lives are now conniving and contriving and setting up alternate social media accounts for planning their color revolution. Spicy times ahead possibly.
Keep at it. They will get better at finding them quick enough. Keep the motivation high.
Offer a reward.
Letters of marques should become a topic. Per head and you keep all the legal loot. Govt keeps any real estate. Dead ones don’t count will keep them honest.
Incentives beat the snot out of enforcement. Make them want to go back home. “There’s nothing for you here, Paco. You were better off in Guatemala.”
All this cheerleading and hopium regarding superficial deportations but not even a whisper about deporting any of the kosher nose-tra – you know, the gang that’s responsible for all of this, and a whole lot more.
Nothing of any substance gets done until you strike the root, and it’s not about to happen because making the browns disappear isn’t in the interest of the jews even though there’s plenty of cuntservative jew-lovers to replace them. All of these feel-good antics are just cheap pandering to moronic Trump chumps to keep them in their cocoon of jingoistic ignorance. He’s on record saying he’s all for ‘legal’ immigration because “we need people”. They’ll send a few back home and let even more in after they trot out another dog-and-pony show diversion. We now have a pajeet POS as the head of the FBI. Think you’re safe now?
Do what the Russian Federation did – BAN ‘Dual Citizens’ from ALL government/military/elected positions. IIRC, it’s now in their Constitution. How does this work, in the case of the koshers? Well, THEIR LAW, both Religious and ‘civil’ (the Apartheid government of Occupied Palestine) considers ALL jews to be ‘Citizens of Israel’ (whatever they say that is) so (((they))) Automatically have Dual Citizenship.
This isn’t Racial, Cultural, or Religious. It is using the FACT that (((they))) consider themselves “A Nation Apart” from the goyim, or non-jew. Enforce their own “Law” on them, see how they like it…
p.s. there once was a Proposal, by the Good White Folks of NaSDAP, to Deport all the tiny hats in Europe to Madagascar, a large, isolated Island, that could be “Quarantined” by Air and Sea. Problem Solved.
One hundred percent.
Make Home Depot and Walmart safe to shop again.
https://www.amazon.com/ICE-Immigration-Border-Immigrant-Coaches/dp/B0743KS215?
“Make it public. Make a big production of it. Show ICE raiding businesses and handcuffing people. ”
Exactly. If ICE arrested whoever is running the Roosevelt Hotel and other such establishments housing all those illegal aliens, I guarantee it wouldn’t take too many before those hotels started booting the illegals.
“:Bust the C-Suite guys, Hard.”
1000X this….. We know there are some big corporations that use illegals at their food processing plants. Start arresting a couple of CEO’s and plant managers and watch those illegals scurry. Perp walk Tyson CEO and others and I bet it would only take 2 or 3 arrest and you would start seeing changes. If he doesn’t, then all this is kayfabe to placate the peasants while he services the jews.
I’d say Trump is doing better than I expected. But if he doesnt go after the big people, then I question whether he has the heart to do what is necessary.
“shut off all financial aid vectors, every single one,”
Shut off those balance of payment $$$ they send back to Mexico and wherever they came from. They cuts off a big chunk of the economic incentive to be here.
Something that makes me thing this administration is not serious is the release of the Epstein and JFK files. Just a few days ago AG Bondi was saying, “they are on my desk.” Well then, why haven’t they been released? Why haven’t the JFK files been released.
The reason is obvious. They implicate Israel. And anything that besmirches the homicidal maniacs knows as jews is not allowed.
The smoking guns were never identified in any of those JFK files, and what remains under lock and key is irrelevant as far as exposing the true culprits. The files that remain classified are being dramatized to keep people in suspense and in hope of finding some revelation.
I wholeheartedly agree that Israel/jews were involved in that assassination, in a major role (as well as RFK and 9-11). The research of Guyenot, Piper and Bollyn et.al. has eliminated the need for some phony government disclosure.
All these documents supposedly to be/being declassified, I have heard no one mention declassifying the U.S.S. Liberty documents. That is the lie I most want to be exposed, but we all know, that will never happen.
That would besmirch our bestest allies, as well as that walking human excrement, L.B.J.
“In order to deport even 20 million people, ICE would need to deport 5 million per year or over 13,000 per day or 570 per hour, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.”
Off topic, but substitute some numbers and replace the word “deport” and you’ve got “the holocaust”
As usual, great article there, Art. After giving it another read, the whole deportation thinng reminds me a bit of a rodent infestation. We lived in the high desert of the southwest for a few years before we made the move to the Ozarks. Having a homestead farm where we live in the Ozarks mean always having mice traps out, and being ready for the occasional raccoon and the odd coyote. In the desert southwest where we moved from you have mice, kangaroo rats (its horrifying what kangaroo rats will do to the engine compartment, the trunk and the interior of a car), coyotes, wolves, raccoons, skunks, ground squirrels, snakes (we didn’t bother the non-poisonous ones that would help with the rodents even if they pilfered a few eggs here and there) and I’m sure something or two I forgot. We had mouse traps, squirrel traps, rat traps, skunk and ‘coon traps, buckets of water and a full on 120 gallon trough dedicated to catching rodents-you fill it about two thirds full, smear peanut butter about 3 or 4 inches below the rim, lean a board up from the ground to the rim of the trough and the critters go up the board, stand on the rim, eat some of the peanut butter, get greedy and reach too far for more peanut butter, fall into the trough or water bucket and drown. But the whole thing takes really a couple good years to get a solid handle on if say the former owner didn’t pay the problem due heed, and/or didn’t occupy the property for several months before it transferred ownership. There are some strategies to solve a bad infestation, but it still is an exercise in patience-you don’t want them around and they don’t want to be caught. Tough part is the US been encouraging all comers and funded their arrival for years and now there is a huge infestation. No one on a farm ever invites millions of destructive rodents and then sets about trying to clean up the infestation. Un-invading the US of millions of invaders will take literal years-regardless of who said what about it. Years.
They have to go home.