President Trump has spent his first weeks in office reshaping much of the American immigration system through executive actions and working to see through a campaign promise of mass deportations.

For more on all of this, I'm joined now by Chad Wolf.

He's former Acting Secretary of Homeland Security in the First Trump administration and the current executive director of the America First Policy Institute.

That's a conservative think tank. Secretary Wolf, welcome back. Thanks for being with us.

Well, thanks for having me. Good to be here. So White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said last week that's

about more than 8,000 people had been arrested in immigration enforcement actions since President Trump was inaugurated

on January 20th. We've seen reports recently that the president has been unhappy with the pace

of arrests and deportations. When you talk to people on the inside, what do they tell you about

the challenges of meeting some of these expectations? Yeah, well, the number I've got is a little over

11,000, but I think it's a good first step. I think we've got to remember that we're only three

going on the fourth week of the administration. So scaling up the number of folks removed from the

country is going to take a little time. I think they want immediate results,

given where the president has been on this. But there, as you indicate, there are challenges

to doing that. Both you need manpower to target and arrest individuals, and then you need

detention space to put them in as they're being flown out of the country. So all of that

takes logistics. It takes scaling

up to be able to do that. But look, it's three, like I said, three weeks, four weeks into this

effort. And they're at a very high rate. And we've seen, of course, some of the pace slowing a little

bit. I think the highest single day arrest total we saw was about 1,100 over 1100 early in Mr. Trump's administration.

And correct me if I'm wrong, but there was reporting that of that total, about half of all of those,

so about 600 people or so were arrested as criminal arrests.

The rest were what you call nonviolent offenders on civil immigration charges.

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