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Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
I'm Ashley Lopez.
I cover politics.
I'm Hibana Bustio and I cover immigration.
I'm Deepa Shiverham.
I cover the White House.
And today on the show,
we want to take a look back at President Trump's immigration policy through his first year back in office.
I mean, obviously, immigration was a key part of Trump's campaign for a second term.
He promised to carry out, in his words, the largest mass deportation of immigrants in US history.
But like, let's start there.
Is that something he actually accomplished?
So data released from the Department of Homeland Security this fall shows that they have deported 605,000 people.
That is short of the one million a year goal that Trump did campaign on.
However, the number is most definitely not nothing.