Last spring the Monitor examined government data on illegal immigration and found that the yearly average of Border Patrol encounters up to that point had more than quadrupled under then-President Joe Biden, compared with the first Trump term. Now President Donald Trump has vowed to deport 1 million unauthorized immigrants a year 鈥 and Congress has given him the money to do it, as we write about today. Gallup polling data shows that support for deportation has fallen and that support for giving unauthorized immigrants the opportunity to become citizens has risen. That shift is largest among Republicans, with a 13-point increase.