This was never just about illegal immigration
There are not 100 million foreign born people in the US; they want to deport native born citizens as well as legal immigrants: the “ government’s January 2025 Current Population Survey (CPS) shows the foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal together) hit 53.3 million and 15.8 percent of the total U.S. population in January 2025”
https://cis.org/Report/ForeignBorn-Number-and-Share-US-Population-AllTime-Highs-January-2025
