What Percentage of Illegal Aliens in the U.S. Will Eventually Be Deported?

President-elect Donald Trump promised to hold the biggest deportation of illegal immigrants in history, and his “border czar” Tom Homan is already planning how to do it. According to S.A. McCarthy at The Daily Signal, Homan’s job may have been made a bit easier by some illegal immigrants “self-deporting.” 

According to both CBS News and The Guardian, thousands of Haitian immigrants in the city of Springfield, Ohio, are rushing to Chicago, New York City, and other “sanctuary” locations before Trump is sworn into office and initiates his pledged mass deportation program.

Springfield, a city of less than 60,000, has been crippled ever since the outgoing Biden-Harris administration imported roughly 20,000 Haitian immigrants into the municipality starting in 2021. The city has seen a drastic rise in housing costs and traffic accidents and has been forced to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to accommodate the immigrants, who were granted “temporary protected status” by the Biden-Harris administration.

Many Haitians in Springfield have taken Trump’s promise of mass deportations – to be enacted by his new “border czar,” former Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director and immigration hardliner Tom Homan – seriously. Trump has vowed to terminate the temporary protected status granted to the Haitians, causing many to leave the Ohio city that Trump mentioned during a presidential debate. Popular destinations for the immigrants include Chicago, New York City, Boston, Canada, and even Brazil, where many Haitian migrants had previously been granted temporary asylum before illegally entering the U.S.

In comments to The Washington Stand, Andrew Arthur, senior fellow in Law and Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies, said, “Just the threat of ‘mass deportation’ has changed the dynamics for the millions of illegal aliens currently present in the United States, many of whom were drawn here by the Biden-Harris administration’s promises of de facto amnesty and indefinite presence in the United States.”

He continued, “Now that they are facing the real threat of enforcement and deportation, a significant number will simply decide to leave on their own, which will make border czar Tom Homan’s job of restoring credibility to the U.S. immigration system much easier.” …

While many immigrants have indicated that they would flee to sanctuary cities, where officials refuse to deport illegal immigrants, Homan has warned that even these cities will be subject to mass deportations….

Heading into the election, immigration was consistently rated one of the top two concerns for voters…. A majority of Americans also signaled at least some support for Trump’s proposed mass deportation program. But a new poll shows that nearly three-quarters of Americans want Trump to make mass deportations a “priority.”

According to a CBS News/YouGov survey, 73% of American adults say that deporting illegal immigrants should be a “priority” for Trump’s administration, including 45% of Americans who say it should be a “high priority.”

Additionally, nearly 60% of respondents said that they want Trump to initiate “a national program to find and deport all immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally.” A majority (64%) also favor Trump mobilizing federal law enforcement agencies that don’t typically interact with immigration in order to assist with deportations.

Trump and Homan have both stated that they would start their deportation task by deporting those illegal immigrants who are dangerous or are criminals. However, they have also said that all people who are in the United States illegally are subject to being caught up in the drag net.