Posted on 11/11/2023 9:10:28 AM PST by thegagline
Former President Donald J. Trump is planning an extreme expansion of his first-term crackdown on immigration if he returns to power in 2025 — including preparing to round up undocumented people already in the United States on a vast scale and detain them in sprawling camps while they wait to be expelled.
The plans would sharply restrict both legal and illegal immigration in a multitude of ways.
Mr. Trump wants to revive his first-term border policies, including banning entry by people from certain Muslim-majority nations and reimposing a Covid 19-era policy of refusing asylum claims — though this time he would base that refusal on assertions that migrants carry other infectious diseases like tuberculosis.
He plans to scour the country for unauthorized immigrants and deport people by the millions per year.
To help speed mass deportations, Mr. Trump is preparing an enormous expansion of a form of removal that does not require due process hearings. To help Immigration and Customs Enforcement carry out sweeping raids, he plans to reassign other federal agents and deputize local police officers and National Guard soldiers voluntarily contributed by Republican-run states.
To ease the strain on ICE detention facilities, Mr. Trump wants to build huge camps to detain people while their cases are processed and they await deportation flights. And to get around any refusal by Congress to appropriate the necessary funds, Mr. Trump would redirect money in the military budget, as he did in his first term to spend more on a border wall than Congress had authorized.
In a public reference to his plans, Mr. Trump told a crowd in Iowa in September: “Following the Eisenhower model, we will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” The reference was to a 1954 campaign to round up and expel Mexican immigrants that was named for an ethnic slur — “Operation Wetback.”
The constellation of Mr. Trump’s 2025 plans amounts to an assault on immigration on a scale unseen in modern American history. Millions of undocumented immigrants would be barred from the country or uprooted from it years or even decades after settling here.
Such a scale of planned removals would raise logistical, financial and diplomatic challenges and would be vigorously challenged in court. But there is no mistaking the breadth and ambition of the shift Mr. Trump is eyeing.
In a second Trump presidency, the visas of foreign students who participated in anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian protests would be canceled. U.S. consular officials abroad will be directed to expand ideological screening of visa applicants to block people the Trump administration considers to have undesirable attitudes. People who were granted temporary protected status because they are from certain countries deemed unsafe, allowing them to lawfully live and work in the United States, would have that status revoked. ***
This sounds like a good plan.
It’s a great plan! And a necessary plan!
HELL YEAH!!!
People seem to forget that Eisenhower Deported 1.3m in 1954 with far less resources available to us to do so today!
Mass DEPORTATION of ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS isn't only possible, we have an obligation to our own National Security to do it!
Works for me.
Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!
There goes the illegal vote. He’ll never capture it now.
Baloney. Nobody is going to do anything about the illegals already here. We don’t have the politcal willpower to do it.
Think of all the real and important jobs this policy will generate!
I feel like a little kid waiting for Christmas.
I like it. Of course it will affect legal immigration. It will limit it to people who immigrate legally.
it is extreme to remove people who are not citizens
ignore the fact that every other country does the same
Works for me.
“It will limit it to people who immigrate legally.”
Most people don’t know that we allow three million legal immigrants in per year. People look at me like I have two heads when I tell them that. They can’t believe politicians can be so stupid.
Legal immigration alone will destroy the nation.
without a kind of military-style mobilization, the US government has no institutional capacity to do such a thing, and it would be fought/sabotaged every step of the way by leftist states, courts and localities.
But on the other hand, I appreciate the big ideas.
Just think of all the good paying jobs kicking these criminals out will provide! I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas and I will crawl through broken glass to vote for President Trump.
If legal immigration is held to the old standards, y’know, get a job, no welfare etc, I’m all in favor of it. Most of the immigrants I know are proud to live here and make great citizens when they become naturalized. I want them here.
Fully agree and was deeply disappointed when, at the RNC nominating convention Trump quelled the chants from the delegates and supporters of “Lock Her Up” about Hillary, by putting his arms up, palms outward, smiling, and said “No, no, let’s just win the election.”
Big mistake he is still paying for today.
No one patted him on the head and said: “that’s so sweet of him, he deserves a reward such as laying off the lawfare.”
However, I would keep that to myself about the new plans and emphasize the harmony stuff. Then do what is right after the next inauguration day.
NO.
I LOVE this man. Why is he the ONLY pol who unabashedly champions America and vows to put these policies in place on Day One?
We know the Dems want illegal immigration to build a permanent underclass to keep them in power (”Demography is Destiny,” “Great Replacement,” etc)
But it is so appalling that Republicans don’s speak up against it in order to keep cheap labor flowing. Do all the R pols really sell out America for a few shekels? Don’t any of them (except Trump) look out for the public welfare and the health of the nation? OK, maybe Meadows, Boebert, Stefanik, Greene and a couple of others.
It does, but it’s not practical. The author knows it and Trump knows it. And these people are not a sitting president’s constituency.
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