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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump promised to deport 1 million migrants a year. But his administration didn’t come close to that

Donald Trump’s administration set a target of 1 million deportations a year, with at least 3,000 immigration arrests a day.

But according to figures released by the Department of Homeland Security to members of Congress to justify its mammoth budget, the administration didn’t come close to that scale of removals within the first nine months of Trump’s return to the White House despite the president’s government-wide anti-immigration agenda.

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