What It Would Take to Deport 11 Million People

Financial Times: “Given that there are approximately 11 million people in the US without permanent legal status, a genuine mass deportation would have a wrenching impact on American society, its economy and its sense of self as a nation.”

“Deportation on a Trumpian scale would also face enormous financial, legal and logistical hurdles at every step of the process: identification, apprehension, detention and expulsion. The federal government currently lacks the systems, the facilities and, in some cases, the legal authority to carry out the operations that Trump has described.”