Trump's push to deport criminal immigrants faces limits

 https://www.axios.com/2024/11/29/trump-deport-immigrants-criminals

President-elect Trump is vowing to launch the "largest deportation of criminals in American history" as part of his plans to remove millions of undocumented immigrants from the U.S.

What he doesn't say: There aren't that many criminals who could be deported immediately.

Driving the news: Less than 0.5% of the 1.8 million cases in immigration courts during the past fiscal year — involving about 8,400 people — included deportation orders for alleged crimes other than entering the U.S. illegally, an Axios review of government data found.

The Trump transition team declined to address the low number of current immigration cases involving immigrants who've committed crimes.