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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Deporting millions of people - that is a campaign promise - how will that work exactly?

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Apparently Trump addressed this in a sit-down interview with Time magazine. I think he's talking out of his a** as usual since it will be very hard to carry this out on the local level and it will be fought in state courts. But it sure does sound good to the base. Still, the rhetoric he uses is damaging and so unAmerican.

The topic on which Trump had the most concrete details is his plan to deport many millions of undocumented immigrants. Trump repeated false claims that many migrants are former prisoners or have been institutionalized in their home countries. CNN has reported there is no data to support the idea that a rise in immigrants drives a rise in crime. Most measures of violent crime in the US have actually been falling.

While he didn’t use the derogatory term, [b]Trump pointed to “Operation Wetback,” the deportation initiative taken along the border with Mexico during the Eisenhower administration, as a model[/b]. In 1954, border officials worked with local law enforcement to, they claimed, round up more than 1 million Mexican nationals and move them to the Mexico side of the border. Historians, as CNN reported in 2016, have argued that far fewer people were actually deported, since many people were apprehended multiple times. They also note that many US citizens were caught up in the dragnet and mistakenly deported.

[b]Rather than work with Democrats, Trump wants to militarize the issue, but he would start by using local police forces and focusing on any migrants with a criminal record[/b]. Trump was asked if his effort would include the military “It would,” Trump said, adding, “when we talk military, generally speaking, I talk [b]National Guard.”[/b]

He added that he would “have no problem using the military, per se,” although he thinks the National Guard would suffice. He does not think that laws meant to prevent the use of the military against civilians inside the US without congressional approval would apply to his effort. “These aren’t civilians,” Trump said of migrants. “These are people that aren’t legally in our country. This is an invasion of our country.” He also repeated the conspiracy theory, for which there is no evidence, that “fighting age” males from China are somehow embedding themselves in the US.

[b]What about massive migrant camps? [/b] Trump tried to downplay the idea that there would be massive camps of detained migrants like those described to The New York Times by his immigration policy mastermind Stephen Miller, since, according to Trump, he would be deporting people so fast. “We’re not leaving them in the country. We’re bringing them out,” he said. When asked under what authority he would make all of this happen, [b]Trump suggested he would use federal money to pressure local police[/b].

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/01/politics/trump-immigration-what-matters/index.html

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