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(NewsNation) — President-elect Donald Trump’s committedness to deport 11 cardinal migrants successful the U.S. illegally has much than a fewer obstacles, according to a erstwhile Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director.
The archetypal is staffing and backing from Congress, according to John Sandweg, who worked successful the medication of Democratic President Barack Obama.
“Trump is going to request a batch much ICE agents. That's going to necessitate a batch of appropriations from Congress," helium said.
The medication would besides request a monolithic fig of “detention beds,” thing Sandweg told NewsNation is acold easier said than done.
The main thing, according to Sandweg, is the authorities of the existing U.S. migration system.
“There are backlogs successful the migration courts. The Supreme Court has said that migrants are entitled to owed process earlier they’re deported,” said Sandweg. “That means Trump is going to person to find a mode to bypass those migration courts. I deliberation during the campaign, conscionable successful each candor, I don't deliberation they had a wide roadworthy representation for however they're going to benignant of flooded those challenges.”
