Stringent removal process
It has also been reported that the former president is preparing to expand the removal process that does not require due process hearings. Other federal agents may be deputized, and local police officers and National Guard soldiers may be deployed to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents carry out sweeping raids.
4 million migrants under radar?
According to the ‘New York Post’, the plan would target the nearly 4 million migrants that have crossed the US border since President Biden took office in 2021 as well as those who have been settled in the country for decades.
Pentagon funds may be diverted
It has also been reported that if Congress refuses to approve the massive deportation operation, Trump would use Pentagon funds as he did with his border wall in his first term.
Donald Trump warns
Earlier, the GOP leader has repeatedly discussed resolving the southern border crisis. He pledged last month to reinstate the ban on migrants entering the US “from terror-plagued countries” if he is re-elected.Delivering a speech at Clive, Iowa, he said, “If you’re coming from somewhere full of people who want to kill Americans, we will not let you in.” He vowed, “We aren’t bringing in anyone from Gaza or Syria or Somalia, Yemen, or Libya, or anywhere else that threatens our security.”Donald Trump has frequently talked about his deportation agenda. In a ‘Time’ magazine interview, he declared that he would leverage local law enforcement, the National Guard and the military to carry out his plan. It may be similar to the dragnet-style sweeps of ‘Operation Wetback’ under former President Dwight Eisenhower that shipped more than 1 million migrants out in 1954.
FAQs
What Donald Trump plans to resolve the problem of illegal immigrants?
Donald Trump plans to round up undocumented people already in the US on a large scale and detain them in sprawling camps before expelling them. The Republican contender also wants to revive and expand his first-term border policies.
What has Donald Trump said about immigrants?
Donald Trump has said that the US will not bring in anyone from Gaza, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, or anywhere else that threatens the security of the country.
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