Two thousand Haitians deported to Port-au-Prince. That's the count, per NBC News. One country, one destination, a cumulative number nobody would have believed a few years ago.

I spent 26 years in the Border Patrol and I can tell you what 2,000 removals to a single country means operationally: airframes committed, charter contracts executed, detention beds cycling, ICE Air crews logging hours. A count like that doesn't happen by clerical accident. It takes a deliberate, sustained operation.

The report notes the deportations have raised concerns about deportee safety. Fair enough. Nobody with a map thinks Port-au-Prince is a vacation spot right now. The city has serious problems and everybody knows it.

The open-borders crowd argues that because Haiti is troubled, nobody can be sent back. Follow that logic anywhere and it dead-ends. If a dangerous country granted every one of its citizens the right to live in the United States, we'd be absorbing most of the planet. That was never the law, and it shouldn't be.

For readers who don't eat enforcement paperwork for breakfast, a quick rundown on how a removal works. An immigration judge issues a final order of removal, or the alien is processed under expedited removal, which skips the judge for certain recent border crossers. Either way the order is legally binding. ICE executes it, and the home country has to accept the return.

Every person on those planes was given process. The process produced an order. The order got executed. The system working like it's supposed to.

What advocates actually want is a blanket halt on all removals to Haiti because the country is rough. Blanket halts are how you get a backlog measured in the millions, and we've all seen that movie.

Two thousand gone. That's the scoreboard.