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From The New York Times, it's The Headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today's Thursday, March 6th. Here's what we're covering.
It turns out we didn't need new laws. We didn't need fancy legislation. We just needed a new president of the United States.
Vice President J.D. Vance was at the U.S.-Mexico border yesterday to highlight a drop in border crossings. The number of migrants apprehended at the border is now the lowest in more than two decades. But Vance was on the defensive about another part of the administration's hardline immigration policies, the rate of deportations.
So let me say a few things about that. So first of all, Rome wasn't built in a day.
Trump campaigned on the promise of the largest deportation operation in U.S. history. But despite a spike in arrests, the U.S. government has been deporting fewer people than last year.
I guarantee it is a part of the president's priorities. We'll keep on working on it. We've made a lot of progress, but we're going to keep on working on it over the remainder of the president's term.
This lag in the pace of deportations has already caused concern, even frustration, among some of President Trump's top immigration advisors.
My colleague Zolan Kano-Youngs has been reporting on how there's increasing pressure on Trump's immigration team to follow through on the president's campaign promises.
Our reporting has found that Tom Homan, the czar of this deportation effort, and Stephen Beller, the architect of Trump's immigration agenda, are meeting each morning, sometimes in their office in the White House, sometimes in the Situation Room, and are studying these numbers, deportations, detentions, trying to strategize on ways to ramp up these deportation numbers.
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