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Three Million Gone — And Every 'Expert' Who Said It Was Impossible Just Got Real Quiet

On Friday, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin stood in front of cameras and said six words that made every Democrat's blood turn cold: "Total removals, over 3 million."

Mullin, who took over the Department of Homeland Security on March 31 broke the numbers down further during a press conference. Of those 3 million-plus removals, nearly 1 million were physical arrests and removals carried out by federal agents on the ground. The rest came through a combination of enforcement pressure and a $2,600 voluntary departure bonus that made the math simple enough for even the most stubborn border-crossers.

Here's the part the cable panels won't dwell on: 70 percent of the individuals physically arrested had felony convictions or pending felony charges. Seven out of ten. We're not talking about people who overstayed a tourist visa and opened a bakery. We're talking about convicted felons who had no business being in the country in the first place.

Mullin made clear the pace isn't slowing down. "We're turning up the heat on the streets," he said, with particular focus on sanctuary cities — the jurisdictions that spent years advertising themselves as safe havens from federal immigration law. He's promised an unprecedented ICE presence in New York City specifically, and back in early April floated a question that sanctuary mayors still haven't answered: "Some of these cities have international airports. If they're a sanctuary city, should they really be processing customs into their city?"

The legal backdrop has shifted in the administration's favor too. The Supreme Court approved ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitian nationals and separately ruled that asylum seekers waiting in Mexico haven't legally arrived in the United States. Those two decisions alone closed off entire categories of legal delay that had been gumming up the deportation pipeline for years.

None of this was supposed to happen, of course. Every immigration attorney on MSNBC spent 2024 explaining that mass deportation was a "logistical impossibility" and a "fantasy designed to rile up the base." The think-tank class produced white papers proving that you simply could not remove millions of people from a country this size. The logistics, the manpower, the court challenges, the sheer impossibility of it all.

Three million removals later, those white papers make excellent kindling.

The "impossible" number is sitting right there on the DHS letterhead. The only people who haven't adjusted to reality are the ones who told us reality was different.

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