Two news items from last week point to where US immigration enforcement is headed: 1) the number of foreign-born people in the country fell by 1.5 million in the first six months of 2025, and 2) ICE is on track to deport just 400,000 illegal immigrants for the whole year.

The obvious conclusion: A lot more illegal migrants are self-deporting than being expelled — which is surely how most Americans want things to proceed, and a lot more practical than any kind of mass round-ups.

The Trump administration is increasing deportations: This year’s 400,000 is up from the last reported Biden annual total of 271,000 which itself reflected a belated effort to show greater toughness as Democrats finally admitted how badly their open-borders policies had angered voters.

But Team Trump’s fie

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