Mass Deportation After The Midterms Part 2: Here Is The Machine

Last week I argued here that mass deportation is not merely an enforcement exercise but a national logistics operation, and that no one is building the machine to run it at real scale. I argued for a temporary civilian logistics layer, run from the White House, commanded by a few dozen people, and sized backward from the departures the mandate actually requires.The response, from outside critics to friends in the administration, was: fine, but what is the machine? Name it, and name the parts. (RELATED: Mass Deportation … After The Midterms?)Fair. So, here they are. This is a preview of a chapter from “Matching the Mandate,” a full-length report out this fall. Let’s call the machine we need to build the National Remigration Service.THE INSTRUMENT Federal law, 5 U.S.C. 3161, lets the Preside