The administration of US President Donald Trump plans to deport 1 million immigrants during the first year of his term. This is reported by The Washington Post, citing four current and former federal officials who are directly familiar with the White House's plans.
It is noted that the deportation of 1 million immigrants in one year would allegedly exceed previous statistics, as the largest number so far was more than 400,000 per year, when Barack Obama was president.
The authors point out that one strategy to quickly increase the number of deportees is to find ways to expel some of the 1.4 million immigrants who have final deportation orders but cannot be deported because their home countries will not take them back.
Meanwhile, White House spokesman Kush Desai did not answer questions about the government's goal, but said in an email that the Trump administration had received a mandate from voters to correct the work of its predecessors on border security and immigration control.
"The entire Trump administration is focused on fulfilling this mandate, not on arbitrary goals, using a whole-of-government approach to ensure the effective mass deportation of terrorists and illegal criminals," the spokesman said.
US President Donald Trump proposed that illegal immigrants working in sectors such as agriculture and the hotel and restaurant business should be able to deport themselves and return legally. For this, their employers must vouch for them.
