Donald Trump ’s mass deportation effort has been lagging behind his goal . His vice president, JD Vance , at one point forecast a million deportations a year this term ; the administration hasn’t only been well behind that lofty number—they’ve struggled to keep pace with removals last year, when Joe Biden was still president, and have called on migrants to “self-deport” to help boost their stats.

That’s been a point of frustration for Stephen Miller , the administration’s resident anti-immigration zealot. Unsatisfied with the pace of deportations thus far, he has demanded recently that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement make no fewer than 3,000 arrests a day—and threatened to fire officials who hold them back from meeting that quota. They haven’t quite hit that, but ICE this

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