Two consistent Trump administration defenses of its immigration policies are 1) there is no deportation force and 2) the focus is on deporting serious criminals. First, in a January 12, 2017, CNN town hall meeting, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) said that based on the information he had received there would be no deportation force. “Everybody thinks that there’s some deportation force that’s being assembled. Here are the facts and readers can decide whether or not there will be a deportation force. Still, even a doubling of officers devoted to deportation would seem to meet the threshold definition of a “deportation force.” And that is before including what has been described as the “force multiplier” of using state and local police to assist in deportation efforts, as outlined in the president’s executive order.

Source: Forbes February 22, 2017 21:33 UTC