Report: Illegal Immigrants Already Starting to Leave the U.S., No Deportation Needed

President-elect Donald J. Trump was the first candidate ever to receive an endorsement from the National Border Patrol Council. Mr. Trump, who defeated Hillary Clinton on Tuesday in the biggest Electoral College victory for a Republican since 1988, made the the promise he would secure the border and enforce current immigration law central to his campaign.

Now, even without lifting a finger, and certainly without a deportation force on the march, reports from the border indicate immigrants residing in the U.S. illegally are already leaving. Why? Because roughly 1.4 million illegal immigrants signed up to receive benefits under two amnesty programs and could now face deportation under a Trump administration.

“I was surprised anyone would be stupid enough to sign up for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) and DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans). Yet apparently hundreds of thousands of people did so anyway,” John Miano of the Center for Immigration Studies wrote in a blog post.

President Barack Obama had asked those “living in the shadows” to sign up for the controversial program. Of the 1,443,762 applicants, roughly 1 million are from Mexico, 607,000 live in Texas and California, and 119,788 came from either El Salvador, Guatemala or Honduras.

As People’s Pundit Daily recently reported just before the election, scores of immigrants from around the world were pouring across the U.S.-Mexican border. The prevailing wisdom was that Mr. Trump would lose to Hillary Clinton, who along with her party had been for years attempting to lure Latin American migrants as new voters.

The Democratic Party’s share of the white vote has fallen precipitously. As of now, the populous New York businessman won 71% of the working class white vote, topping the previous record held by Ronald Reagan in 1984.

Art Del Cueto, a Border Patrol agent in Tucson, Ariz., said they were “not getting any backing” from D.C. and “we need to start enforcing every single immigration law we have on the books.”

“We are overwhelmed,” one veteran agent in McAllen, Texas, said. “We are seeing 800 to 1,000 apprehensions every night.”

Their views are wildly shared with other agents in Texas. As People’s Pundit Daily reported last year, government officials in Guatemala and Venezuela say the Obama administration had put out the word that the door was open, which was exacerbated by the campaign rhetoric during the cycle.

“People think if one candidate wins, certain things will happen, like a giant wall being built and then they can never get through,” said Chris Cabrera, an agent in the Rio Grande Valley. “Another faction believes that if the other candidate wins, they’ll get amnesty if they’re here by a certain date.”

In fiscal 2016, the U.S. Border Patrol apprehended 117,200 immigrants from Central America, representing almost one-third of all apprehensions. This year, the agency said the number of apprehensions is 5,000 more than during the surge of 2014, the year that was considered an all out border crisis.

The agency says they also apprehended 5,000 Haitians, up from just 700 last year. The number of immigrants apprehended claiming to be from Africa and Asia–countries that are known terror hotspots like Somalia and Yemen–are also way up, the agency says.

But now sources in states and at the border say on Wednesday after it became clear Mr. Trump was victorious, the number of exit immigrants began to increase.