Donald Trump has promised a 'mass deportation.' It would cost billions.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Trump has also promised to employ the military and National Guard in his effort.
56% : During the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump invoked a public health law from the 1940s known as Title 42.
49% : ICE uses more than 190 facilities to detain immigrants in at least 40 states and U.S. territories, according to agency statistics.
48% : Another 530,000 immigrants, who arrived as children when their parents crossed the border illegally, benefit from a temporary status called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
48% : Trump has said state and local law enforcement officers could help federal authorities.
45% : The ramp-up is doable if a second Trump administration takes a "steroid-infused, whole-of-government approach," said Mark Morgan, who served as acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection under Trump.
45% : "That is the low-hanging fruit," he said, "all the people who get picked up under Secure Communities," a program that connected, under the Obama administration, local law enforcement jurisdictions with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement database.ICE reported that, in July, there were more than 660,000 noncitizens with criminal histories on its docket.
45% : Congress currently appropriates funding enough for ICE to hold an average of 34,000 people in detention daily.
39% : Trump appointed hundreds of judges during his first term, reshaping the courts that previously slowed or stopped his attempts to ramp up immigration enforcement.
36% : Across all four years of Trump's administration, ICE recorded just under 932,000 deportations.
34% : But a USA TODAY review of interviews and speeches by Trump and his former advisors and administrators indicate he intends to:A mass deportation of 1 million people per year could cost $88 billion annually, according to the nonpartisan American Immigration Council.
32% : Ken Cuccinelli, who served as acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security under Trump, said immigrants with deportation orders have limited rights.
31% : Trump hasn't released detailed plans for a mass deportation.
29% : Trump has said he wouldn't need large detention centers because the deportations would happen swiftly.
25% : "And if Trump wins a second term, experts say, public opinion may be on his side to do things Americans objected to before, like separating immigrant parents from their children in order to prosecute the adults.
21% : Trump said he would invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to hasten deportations.
11% : Trump tried to abolish the program, which began under the Obama administration.
9% : "Trump has frequently said he would model his deportation effort after an operation 70 years ago under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.Eisenhower's 1954 effort targeted hundreds of thousands of Mexicans and people of Mexican descent.

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