So, it really appears that is the case, David. 

A number I had not heard until I heard Trump himself say it, which is quite questionable because he lies and exaggerates all the time, is 11,288 (it was 11,000 something he said a specific number to the press). This is the number of "murderers and rapists" that he said we had let into our country. Just over 11,000. I don't know over what period of time he meant, he obviously was talking years but I don't know how many years. This is who he always claims we are removing. 

So, not 10 million, not 20 million, not even the somewhere near 600,000 "criminals" that have supposedly entered our country. We are, according to Trump, trying to deport these 11,000 people. I don't know if he let that slip out, he was not supposed to say that or what, but yes, we are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to find and deport 11,000 people. Of course, we are not just deporting the "murderers and rapists" we are deporting, or attempting to deport, anybody we can get our hands on whether they have a criminal record or not. 

Next, I had mentioned the quota, which was the number of people Miller wanted arrested for deportation per day, it was 3000. He and Tom Holman wanted 3000 people grabbed off the streets per day. Well, I guess they were confronted with that number and what the math adds up to with that number (which would likely be at most 3.5 million people over Trump's term) and realized this is nowhere near the 10 million Trump claimed he would deport. So, they raised the quota to 7000 per day.

OK, if you are arresting for deportation with no trial 7000 people per day, in two days you would exceed the 11,288 "rapists and murderers" that Trump says are in the country and we are going after. Simple math. 7000 plus 7000 is 14,000. 

If anything Trump is saying was true, and we were just going after the rapists and murderers that are here, well why would we need to have a quota to arrest and deport 7000 people per day? 

If Alligator Alcatraz is meant to house "violent criminals" and the total number of violent criminals is maybe around 11,000 according to Trump himself, who are we arresting and throwing into Alligator Alcatraz? Obviously, after two days of 7000 people arrested per day or 4 days of 3000 people arrested per day we would have, if we were just going after the violent ones, cleaned up our immigrant violent criminal problem. 

So, who are we arresting is the question? Obviously, we are arresting way more than violent criminals and the people that are doing the arresting are NOT checking who it is they are arresting. They don't have to. They just need to meet a quota. Some of the people they have arrested have been here for 50 years. One woman that is currently in a detention facility and can't get out came to this country 50 years ago from Canada. She went to elementary school, junior high, high school, and college here. She worked a good job here, has her own kids. And never committed any crime. She is trapped in a detention center as i type this. F-ing insane. 

She is not in Alligator Alcatraz but if she was, and got torn up by an alligator, wouldn't that be wonderful for her kids. 

None of the numbers, the money we are spending, the number of people we are arresting, none of it makes any sense. 

Good people, a good country, a country you can be proud of does not do this.