Throughout his campaign, Donald Trump promised “the largest deportation program in American history.” He depicted a country where immigrants are emptied out of the world’s most notorious jails and mental institutions to “poison the blood” of America with violent crime rampages. His vision commanded the swift removal of millions of undocumented Americans.
But four months after entering office, the president’s history-making deportation plan isn’t anywhere close to those figures, and the targets are largely anything but the faces of horrific crime that he sold to voters.