That this mass deportation will happen with no legal restraints, accountability or oversight is by no means a premise to be granted without contest. Because resigning oneself in advance to a maximalist vision of mass deportation helps accomplish the same goal: making immigrants feel they have no choice but to leave the United States.

Illegals must go,” Tom Homan, the incoming Border Czar, has declared—and he and President-elect Trump mean that literally. Critics have a pat response: It is not physically or financially possible to implement the largest deportation program in our history.

Their meltdowns over Donald Trump’s promise to deport illegal immigrants come in reaction to policies that most Americans regard as simple common sense.

President-Elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan for undocumented immigrants could have wide-ranging impacts across the country, particularly in Florida.