How Trump Plans to Deport 4% of the U.S. Population | WSJ

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to deport millions of immigrants in what would be the largest deportation operation in U.S. history. One cost estimate has his plan at $315 billion – that’s more than the government spends on most federal agencies. Roughly 13 million immigrants who entered the country illegally are at risk of deportation.

WSJ breaks down the logistics and explains why an operation of this scale could require hundreds of billions of dollars over the course of a decade.

Chapters:
0:00 Estimate of Trump’s plan
0:30 Overview of the plan
2:30 Arrests
4:18 Detention
6:20 Legal processing
7:32 Removal
8:57 Funding

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