This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Thursday, February 23rd, 2017.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The President has pledged to step up deportations of so-called criminal aliens, but the term itself masks some of what the president would like to do.

Alex Narasta immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute comments.

When Donald Trump signed his big executive order dealing with the seven countries, Muslim majority countries that he was going to prohibit travel

to the United States from those countries.

There was another executive order within a week or so that was not as heavily discussed or even complained about,

but that was stepping up enforcement of current immigration law.

Where does that stand right now?

So Secretary Kelly of the DHS has recently signed the memos enacting the executive orders.

What the president's executive orders on

on enforcement do is they basically they do two things.

One is they unshackle immigration law enforcement in the United States giving much

larger free reign to

immigration customs enforcement and Customs and Border Protection

and Border Patrol. And the second thing they do is they call for a huge increase in the number of ICE officers and Border Patrol officers.

So you have sort of the two portions that you really need to boost enforcement in the U.S.

You have the unshackling of them and the removal of a lot of restrictions and you have calls

for a large increase in their numbers.

All right, so compare this to President Obama.

We called him, or some people called him, I guess, the Deporter-in-chief because he had

engaged in quite a bit of deportations.

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