re: #521 Mike Lamb

Would Trump even need Senate approval for deportations? Couldn’t he do other you EO?

To do it on the scale he’s promised, he’d need a shitload more money that Congress is likely to appropriate as part of the budget. You’re talking figures into the three digit billion range or higher. In other words blowing a massive hole in the budget with no guarantee of success. Congress will probably give him the money to expand the ranks and perhaps accelerate deportations already pending, but they’re not going to issue him carte blanche to start hiring the numbers he’d need to remove 11m+ people virtually overnight.