Report: Trump admin fired more people than it deported in his first month

Fixing the immigration crisis in America was one of the priorities Donald Trump said he would accomplish once back in power. However, after one month in office, data showed the Trump administration has fired more people than it has deported. 

According to a report from Reuters published on February 22nd, the Trump government deported 37,660 people during his first month in office based on unpublished data from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. 

The Trump administration's deportation numbers are an issue for the president for two interesting reasons. First, deportations under Trump during his first month in office were lower than the monthly average achieved under Joe Biden. 

President Joe Biden’s administration reported an average monthly deportation rate of 57,000 removals and returns in the final year in office according to Reuters. However, this discrepancy was explained away by Trump administration officials. 

Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said that Biden-era deportation figures were “artificially high” because of illegal immigration. She appeared to suggest illegal immigration has slowed down under Trump.

Trump’s White House has previously claimed illegal immigration declined after Trump took office. For example, On February 15th, the White House Instagram account published a post that read: “Daily illegal alien encounters plummet 95% under President Trump.”

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An image of a bar graph showed that illegal alien encounters had dropped from 1,800 under Biden to just 132 under Trump. PBS News reported that while illegal immigration on the southern border has dropped, it added the White House’s data was misleading. 

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Illegal immigration ebbs and flows according to PBS News, something that the White House data didn’t reflect since it was focused on data from a small time period. What we do know is that Trump has fired more federal employees during his first month. 

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was tasked with routing out fraud and corruption in the federal government. However, the agency has been working hard to push workers off the government’s payroll through firings and buyouts. 

When it comes to federal employees being fired, the numbers are unclear because of ongoing appeals and court rulings, but they are larger according to Newsweek. Up to 200,000 may be impacted by DOGE’s cost-cutting activities. 

Some of those affected could see the decision about their cut reversed. But it is clear from the data that more US government workers have been fired from their jobs than illegal immigrants have been deported during Trump’s first month in office. 

On top of DOGE’s job cuts, the agency has convinced roughly 75,000 workers to take a buyout deal, putting the number of government employees removed by the new Trump administration far above the number of illegal aliens removed from the country. 

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