NEW: President Trump has failed to deport “millions,” as promised. Local cops have all but made that impossible by refusing to cooperate with him. Instead he’s resorted to show-of-force ICE raids immigration activists say are tactics used to terrorize.
An ICE spokesman told me Trump's inability to deport more people than Obama is due in part to local law enforcement refusing to work with ICE, like here in L.A.
"The majority of [deportations] come from cooperation with state and local law enforcement partners," he said.
"The majority of [deportations] come from cooperation with state and local law enforcement partners," he said.
This is the place inside L.A. County Jail where ICE used to take into custody inmates who had finished serving their time -- including those whose charges were dismissed or committed minor offenses. @LACoSheriff kicked them out. 
You can see clearly here that Trump won't even come close to Obama when it comes to first term deportation numbers.
To understand why, look at this data from @TRACReports and @ackocher, which clearly shows -- despite Trump trying to get law enforcement to cooperate with handing over undocumented people -- those requests are way down from the Obama years.
Our tour of the jail is new, as are the latest numbers from ICE and @TRACReports, but this issue has been one that local law enforcement, activists and elected officials have battled over for years, as @itscaitlinhd wrote about in 2017. nytimes.com/2017/09/13/us/…
As @MigrationPolicy makes clear, "deportation" is an informal term. "Removals" is the key stat, defined as "compulsory movement of a noncitizen out of the U.S. based on a formal order of removal," a far more consequential deterrence policy than "returns." migrationpolicy.org/article/obama-…
More on detainers in the Trump era here, from @crimmigration. This is the same @TRACReports data we cite in our report.
https://twitter.com/crimmigration/status/1318586756116090882?s=20
Take a look at @MichaelGKagan's work on this as well, specifically about how this is playing out in Las Vegas.
https://twitter.com/MichaelGKagan/status/1318592016394055681
Right on cue, my point exactly. Trump ramping up interior enforcement (or at least PR for it) to send a message in another jurisdiction not cooperating with ICE.
https://twitter.com/ICEgov/status/1318628053916905472?s=20
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