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Re:CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter... by Aurornis on Thursday September 11, 2025 @09:53AM (#45211712)
Look at the actual deportation numbers. It’s barely on track to meet deportation rates from a decade ago.

Don’t believe the political rhetoric. They’re making a big show and behaving poorly with the masks and other abuses, but they’re not actually doing abnormally high deportations.

Note that any large country will have a steady flow of deportations due to basic enforcement of immigration laws.

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Re:CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter... by Workaccount2 on Thursday September 11, 2025 @10:05AM (#45211869)
The goal for them is to scare immigrants out of the country, make a spectacle of deporting 10 and hope another 20 get scared and self-deport, and another 100 decide not to try and illegally enter.
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Re:CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter... by notmyjob on Thursday September 11, 2025 @10:23AM (#45212070)
How is that working out so far?
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Re:CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter... by sawjet on Thursday September 11, 2025 @10:26AM (#45212107)
Looking at the border numbers, very successfully
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Re:CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter... by helsinki8 on Thursday September 11, 2025 @10:01AM (#45211821)
Deportation numbers can be highly misleading because of changes in how border interactions were recorded. There have been changes at various times to count as a deportation turning someone back at the border, or to count it as a refusal of entry.

Deporting 100 people working at a factory has a different economic impact than deporting 100 people at the moment they were trying to cross the border.

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Re:CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter... by throwawaysleep on Thursday September 11, 2025 @10:00AM (#45211808)
Crackdown != deportations. If workers stay away from job sites, the labor is off the market even if they don’t leave the country.
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