White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday credited a lack of Congressional funding for immigration enforcement and “rogue district court judges” for the Trump Administration’s inability to follow through on mass deportations.
As of April 1, 2025, over 100,000 individuals had been deported since January 20, 2025. But this is far slower than the rate necessary to deport the tens of millions of illegals in our country right now.
To deport the more than 20 million illegal aliens that Leavitt says entered the U.S. in the last four years, the Trump Administration would need to execute upwards of ten thousand deportations per day.
Leavitt was asked how many illegals are currently in our country and how many the administration actually estimates will be deported.
“We suspect it’s definitely in the millions and perhaps upwards of 20 million people that were allowed into the country illegally by the previous administration,” she told the reporter.
She continued, “The president’s team has made it clear that we need more funding from Congress to do more, we need more ICE agents out on the ground doing this very important work.”
She also slammed district court judges who are trying to stop the Trump Administration’s deportations, saying, “We also need rogue district court judges to stop acting as judicial activists, trying to block the administration from deporting illegal criminals from our nation’s interior.”
As The Gateway Pundit reported, another unelected Biden Judge in Denver, Colorado, granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking the removal of aliens from the district of Colorado. Judge Charlotte Sweeney said aliens facing deportation under the AEA must be given 21 days’ notice before removal.
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Leavitt also addressed the potential national security concerns with Chinese nationals on student visas, noting that the Secretary of State reserves the right to revoke visas of students who are “acting in an adversarial way to our foreign policy interests.”
“If they are acting, again, adversarial to our foreign policy interests, their visa can be revoked, and they should be aware of that,” she said.
Watch below:
Reporter: Roughly how many illegal immigrants and aliens do we have in our country, and how many does the administration plan on deporting?
Leavitt: You’d have to ask the Department of Homeland Security for a specific number, but we suspect it’s definitely in the millions and perhaps upwards of 20 million people that were allowed into the country illegally by the previous administration. And the President and his team are focused on deporting as many as we possibly can, and they are moving as quickly as possible. The president’s team has made it clear that we need more funding from Congress to do more, we need more ICE agents out on the ground doing this very important work, and we also need rogue district court judges to stop acting as judicial activists, trying to block the administration from deporting illegal criminals from our nation’s interior. The American public elected the President to do this, and he’s following through with that promise.
Reporter: We have over a quarter million Chinese nationals in our country right now on student visas. Does the Administration believe there is any national security concern when it comes to those over a quarter million Chinese nationals in our country?
Leavitt: Well, as you know, when it comes to foreign visas, the Secretary of State has the right to revoke visas for those who we feel are acting in an adversarial way to our foreign policy interests here in the United States. He has that authority according to the Immigration and Nationality Act. So, I would defer you to the State Department for any individual case, but they are looking at individuals who are given the privilege of being on a visa in our country, and if they are acting, again, adversarial to our foreign policy interests, their visa can be revoked, and they should be aware of that.
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