To protect people’s families from being ripped apart for one. Also it will destabilize the local economy if they deport them too fast. Hundreds of thousands of jobs disappearing and the same amount of people no longer paying local taxes like sales tax and buying things. It will basically create a mini recession in some areas.
There’s no point now. Anything they try to do will be blocked and be labeled lame duck president bullshit. It sucks but it’s reality. No point in trying to shake things up now. We can only pray the liberal judges stay alive until 2029