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The numbers they are pulling only speak to how infeasible and unserious their leadership and task-setting is.

There are supposedly between 200,000 and 300,000 undocumented people in the Chicagoland area. Operation midway Blitz had netted 3000 over the course of two months, and many of those people were let go. Even if its the lower number (200,000) and 60% of those see the enforcement actions and choose to self deport, it would still take ICE/CBP about 60 months at their most aggressive enforcement level to "clear" the rest. That's with the most generous assumptions of actual numbers and projected self-deportations. In other words, what they propose to be doing would stretch far beyond the current administration at the most unsustainable level of deployment. And that's just Chicago.

And they don't even make those numbers, really.

The whole thing is a childish fantasy of Stephen Miller transformed into unworkable policy.