Buck Sexton was kind enough to have me on his show on Tuesday to talk about my new book, Sex and the Citizen, President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, and Trump’s plans for mass deportations. The whole 25-minute segment is worth watching, but I did want to revisit why I am cautiously optimistic that deportations will be a winner for Trump politically.

First, let me say that if your expectations are that Trump is going to deport all 12 million to 20 million illegal immigrants in the country, you are going to be sorely disappointed. The capacity to find, detain, and process that many people simply does not exist, and the cost-benefit analysis of quickly creating that capacity simply doesn’t add up.