How Many Self Deportations?

I keep hearing these incredible figures...1.6 million...1.9 million...2 million self-deportations. Yet the DHS never tells us how they get to these numbers. It certainly isn't from the new CBP Home app, where illegals who self-deport can get a free flight home plus $1,000 from Uncle Sam. (This was recently upped to $2,600.) DHS admits that the number of folks using that app is in the tens of thousands. Are 1.6 million people that dumb that they turn down a free flight and $1,000? I don't buy it, and am calling BS on the self-deportation numbers.

Ditto for the "100% of the new jobs went to Native Born workers" claim. I know where that number comes from. It's from the household survey. They ask, "Were you born here?" and take the answer they get as gospel. No checking. So, when the government is making a big to-do about illegal immigration and the government survey guy asks, "Were you born here?" what do you answer? "YES! I was born here." Even if you can't answer in English.

This is the long way around to expressing my gratitude that the current government closed the borders. And I'm happy that they are deporting the criminal illegals and gang bangers, etc. My understanding is that those are about 500,000 in 2025. But what about the millions of others who illegally entered the country during the Biden administration? I just saw an interview with NY Republican Mike Lawler, who was waffling. "We can't deport millions of migrants." Yadda Yadda Yadda. Maybe not, Mike. But we can give it a try. I don't want to hear the song and dance about how they are here working hard and just trying to live the American Dream. Hokum!

Let's think about it this way...

Suppose I throw an open house Christmas Party every year. Huge shindig. Come one, come all. All I ask is that you come to the front door, shake my hand and introduce yourself. It's such a popular event that there is a line out onto the sidewalk of people waiting to get in. So how should I feel about people who hop over the fence into my backyard, break into my house through the kitchen door and help themselves to the contents of my fridge? I call the cops and want the trespassers out of my house!

And despite the current furor, I don't think enough is being done to get the millions of trespassers out of the US. I want them out.