The Trump regime and its army of mentally impaired sadists are convinced that if you subject undocumented Latino migrants it will scare others from coming here. It is also meant to terrorize millions more who live in the United States.
Nothing is going to disuade Latinos from seeking new lives, however difficult, in this nation. Nobody makes the perilous trip believing that they will be arrested and deported. Hundreds of thousands who annually evade detection bolster that conclusion.
Pure sadism prompts Trumpian thugs to subject detained migrants to inhumane conditions, the sort common to dictatorships. Masked people snatching up others and whisking them away is what happens in authoritarian governments. Imprisoning people in sub-human conditions and sending some to third countries is the epitome of sadism.
In the end the repugnant targeting of millions will be for naught.
Props to Perplexity for this assessment. I unapologetically use AI apps for research. That’s not unethical because I don’t present information as my own. Here’s Perplexity’s take:
The most recent and comprehensive estimates indicate that there are approximately 11.7 million undocumented immigrants in the United States as of July 2023. Latino or Hispanic immigrants make up the largest share of this population. According to the Center for Migration Studies, as of 2019, there were about 7.41 million undocumented immigrants of Hispanic origin in the U.S., out of a total Hispanic immigrant population of roughly 21 million3. This means that Latinos constitute about 72–76% of the total undocumented population.
- Target Population: Deporting all undocumented Latino migrants would mean targeting at least 7.4 million people, and potentially more if recent arrivals are included.
- Total Undocumented Population: Mass deportation proposals often target the entire undocumented population (11–13 million), of which Latinos are the majority.
- Personnel: Carrying out mass deportation would require hiring and training hundreds of thousands of new law enforcement officers—estimates range from 220,000 to 409,000 additional personnel.
- Detention Facilities: The U.S. currently has about 41,500 detention beds, far short of what would be required. Building vast new detention camps would be necessary, potentially on open land near the border.
- Transportation: Tens of thousands of removal flights and extensive ground transportation infrastructure would be needed to move detainees from across the country to staging areas and then out of the U.S.
- Every undocumented immigrant is entitled to due process, meaning each case would have to be heard individually in immigration court, creating a massive backlog and logistical challenge.
- One-Time Mass Deportation: The American Immigration Council estimates that a one-time operation to deport approximately 13.3 million undocumented immigrants (including recent arrivals) would cost at least $315 billion, broken down as follows:
- $89.3 billion for arrests
- $167.8 billion for detention
- $34.1 billion for legal processing
- $24.1 billion for removals
- Annual Cost of Ongoing Deportations: Deporting one million immigrants per year would cost about $88 billion annually, and it would take more than a decade to deport everyone at that pace, with total costs approaching $1 trillion over ten years.
- Cost Per Deportation: Recent federal data put the average cost at $19,599 per deportation, including apprehension, detention, court proceedings, and transport.
Social and Economic Impact
Community Disruption: Mass raids and removals would separate families, disrupt communities, and create widespread fear and uncertainty, with humanitarian consequences on an unprecedented scale.
Economic Disruption: Deporting millions of Latino workers would remove a significant portion of the U.S. workforce, potentially reducing GDP by 4.2% to 6.8%—a contraction comparable to the Great Recession.
Ricardo Chavira Chicano 