The president's goal of having the “largest deportation program in American history” is running up against his need for American businesses to succeed, report Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Hamed Aleaziz of The New York Times.

Within the past few weeks, President Trump has commented on possible reversals or changes to his mass deportation plans as businesses and employers have spoken out. Last week, he considered allowing hundreds of South Korean workers arrested in a raid to stay in the United States and help finish the construction of an electric vehicle battery plant in Georgia.

“[H]e’s always had a soft spot for the economic needs from a business perspective,” said David J. Bier, the director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute.

Another tension in the administration’s deportation plan is based on logistics, reports Myah Ward of Politico. The administration’s recent efforts in cities including Chicago, Boston, and Washington, D.C., have upped the number of detainees, despite the limited number of beds available.

“Do they have enough transportation? Can they move people fast enough?” said one Department of Homeland Security official. “There are all sorts of pieces to this pipeline, and if any one of them gets clogged, it slows everything down.”

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