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The administration has just sort of made up numbers and said, 'Oh, everything's skyrocketing,' and it simply doesn't accord with what another branch is publishing that is required by Congress," Long said.
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While the president and his Department of Homeland Security officials continue to boast about mass deportations, data from Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, reflect what they call the reality of removals.
Researcher Susan Long is the co-founder of TRAC.
"(The administration has) just sort of made up numbers and said, 'Oh, everything's skyrocketing,' and it simply doesn't accord with what another branch is publishing that is required by Congress," Long said.
For instance, Homeland Security officials claimed to have arrested 151,000 migrants and deported 135,000 in their first 100 days. It is more, they claimed, than the Biden administration in all of 2024.
But TRAC analyzed Homeland Security reports to Congress and found the Trump administration actually arrested roughly half that many migrants - 76,212 people -- and removed or deported fewer than half of what they claimed -- 72,179.
Meanwhile, the administration said it has made serious headway on illegal border crossings.
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