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You can see clearly here that Trump won't even come close to Obama when it comes to first term deportation numbers.
To understand why, look at this data from @TRACReports and @ackocher, which clearly shows -- despite Trump trying to get law enforcement to cooperate with handing over undocumented people -- those requests are way down from the Obama years.
Our tour of the jail is new, as are the latest numbers from ICE and @TRACReports, but this issue has been one that local law enforcement, activists and elected officials have battled over for years, as @itscaitlinhd wrote about in 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/us/sheriffs-immigration-enforcement-jails.html
As @MigrationPolicy makes clear, "deportation" is an informal term. "Removals" is the key stat, defined as "compulsory movement of a noncitizen out of the U.S. based on a formal order of removal," a far more consequential deterrence policy than "returns." https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/obama-record-deportations-deporter-chief-or-not
More on detainers in the Trump era here, from @crimmigration. This is the same @TRACReports data we cite in our report. https://twitter.com/crimmigration/status/1318586756116090882?s=20
Take a look at @MichaelGKagan's work on this as well, specifically about how this is playing out in Las Vegas. https://twitter.com/MichaelGKagan/status/1318592016394055681
Right on cue, my point exactly. Trump ramping up interior enforcement (or at least PR for it) to send a message in another jurisdiction not cooperating with ICE. https://twitter.com/ICEgov/status/1318628053916905472?s=20
