We Have the Tools

So Why Haven't They Been Deported Yet?

This post will not be focused on critiquing or defending the Trump administration. Substack is not the place for chimping out (on Substank, no one will hear you chimp). I merely want to address here that we have yet to achieve victory and point to one tool that can get us there.

So far, around 350,000 people have been deported, or self-deported. It doesn’t really matter whether this is accurate. What is important to understand is that we need to deport well over 100 million before we have taken our country back and achieved a total victory in this field. What concerns me is that there are tools available to the government that would make it easy to track down and deport every single one of these people, and we are clearly not using them.

Some of you may have heard that Trump recently declared multiple foreign Antifa cells as international terrorist organizations. Why is this important? Well, this places these organizations on an Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) list. OFAC compliance is a required part of any lender’s Bank Secrecy Act/Ant-Money Laundering compliance program, but all U.S. persons (including unnatural persons) must comply with OFAC regulations. This also includes foreign branches, overseas offices and subsidiaries of domestic financial institutions. In order to comply with OFAC regulations, banks must block bank accounts and other forms of property from sanctioned parties and prohibit transactions with sanctioned parties. As soon as a funds transfer that contains an OFAC-designated party is routed from a foreign back through a US bank to an offshore bank it must be blocked. OFAC sanctioned parties cannot participate in any economic transaction. Essentially, they are prevented from participating in the economy.

The reader may wonder what relevance this has to illegal immigration. It will be explained in due time, but one must give a full picture of the situation. For any major transaction, a financial institution runs an individual’s name through the OFAC list. If there is an “OFAC Hit” the financial institution will file a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) on that individual with all of the information they have. Now, here is the crux of the matter: the same SAR form is filed for any suspected money laundering or identity theft.

This means that every time that an illegal immigrant uses a fake social security number for a transaction, a financial institution should be filing a SAR that contains their name, address, phone number, and government identification. While surely this is being used for deportations, the Trump administration could make this a lot easier if they simply reviewed SARs for stolen social security numbers and proceeded from there. They have all the information they need to find them; all they need to do is ask.

The DHS conducted 290,000 queries into SARs in the fiscal year of 2024, but over 4.7 million suspicious activity reports were filed in 2024, around 12,870 a day. Furthermore, why not demand that financial institutions make mandatory reports to ICE for any suspicious activity related to immigration? We already live in a police state, every transaction you enter into is recorded and analyzed just in case you are committing a crime. If we are satisfied with 350,000 deportations a year while our every movement is watched like a hawk by the regulatory infrastructure, we have failed. We are capable of much more, we simply do not have the will.