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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Josh Marcus

Trump administration claims it will blow past deportation records with 500,000 already removed from US

The White House claims its wide-ranging deportation campaign is on track to break records this year, with the Trump administration pointing to more than 515,000 people who have been deported since the president took office.

Speaking to Fox News on Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the administration was “on pace to shatter historic records” because the president’s agenda “has jump-started an agency that was vilified and barred from doing its job for the last four years."

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