Are Donald Trump's mass deportations, which he dubbed the largest program in American history, failing? Here's what reports say

Donald Trump's mass deportation plans have still not begun on that large scale as he had promised during the Presidential election campaigns, but the White House PR campaign has already started amping up things. Airwaves and social media feeds are overflowing with pictures and glimpses of enforcement actions taken around illegal immigrants, and the White House social media accounts even posted photos of shackled migrants being loaded onto military aircraft.

ICE arrest numbers still not satisfactory

However, a Politico report suggests that the number of daily arrests made by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stayed relatively the same as that of the Barack Obama administration, which means the PR bump the mass deportation plans are being given, is just a push, with the statistics painting a different picture.

What's more interesting is the fact that the arrests made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement ended up with 400 migrants even being released for the sheer lack of detention capacity. According to Politico, the current scenario is not exactly the ambitious announcements that the Trump administration had made during the Presidential elections about mass deportations.

PR campaigns to satisfy Trump's base?

Trump is currently trying to assert to his deportation-hungry political base that he’s delivering upon his promise of mass deportation, and the PR this initiative is receiving could be one of the biggest attempts at proving the same.

FAQs:

Has Donald Trump announced his plans for mass deportations?
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Does the White House have its own PR campaign?
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