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You don't want to answer the question, because you know the answer. It's obvious — everyone that Biden let in has to go home. Of course. It's a crazy thing to even ask...You think we should give administrative amnesty to some subset that...Biden let in?
Boy, talk about a false premise. Not everyone that Biden let in has to go home. A non-trivial number of them will be qualified to stay in the United States based on the existing laws that were passed by Congress, regardless of whether Stephen Miller or Donald Trump believe in those laws.
Because a non-trivial number of those people will be allowed to stay, and all of them have a due process right to argue to a competent judge at a hearing that they do have the right to stay, it will take some amount of a finite administrative resource to go through deportation hearings. Which means that no, you can't deport 10 million people (most of whom were here before Biden) in the four years that Trump will be in office. You probably can't even deport two million.
Which means that the Administration will have to allocate those finite resources and make a decision on which of the ten million people they are going to deport in, say, the next year. Because they can't deport a million people this year, they'll have to decide on which ones to deport. And if your argument that deportation is necessary is founded principally on reducing the risk to Americans of criminal activity by illegal aliens, then the proper policy would be to prioritize those folks who actually pose such a risk, and not the mom of a breastfeeding infant who has no criminal record. Especially if your Administration spent a not inconsiderable amount of time arguing that it was going to focus on criminals that posed a danger, and not random people.
But now that they're in charge, they have to reckon with the fact that there isn't a huge number of criminal aliens that are easily deportable. It's actually pretty hard to find enough criminals to make the numbers that Trump wants. Instead, the easily deportable people are the ones with clean records that show up regularly to their scheduled ICE check-ins. They're easy to find because they're trying to follow ICE's orders, they require minimal resources to detain because they're not the least bit dangerous. But if you're going to start moving those people to the front of the deportation line because they're easy to deport, you're going to get the political pain that comes from going after people that are just harmlessly trying to live their lives.
