Donald Trump is fueling his hard line on illegal immigration in the US elections. Can his plan for mass deportations be implemented so easily?
Washington, DC – Migration is for Donald Trump the most important topic in the US electionHe makes that clear again and again. Now he has announced that the deportation of immigrants under his presidency will be a “bloody story.” “They should never have been allowed to come to our country,” Trump said on Saturday (September 7) at a rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin.
It is no secret that Trump is taking a hard line against immigration, but his comments on Saturday represent a new escalation of his rhetoric. Trump’s plan – should he vote against Kamala Harris win – are mass deportations of illegal immigrants. Millions are to be deported.
In mid-July, the former president revealed his ideas on the extent to which deportations should take place. JD VanceTrump’s running mate, commented in a ABCNews Interview about the deportation plans: “Let’s start with a million. Kamala Harris failed at that. And then we’ll go from there.”
Republicans support Trump’s plans to combat immigration ahead of US election
And also the Republican Party supports Trump’s plan. A Republican National Committee document on the party’s policy priorities states: “Republicans are offering an aggressive plan to stop the open borders policy that has opened the door to a flood of illegal immigrants, deadly drugs, and migrant crime.”
Furthermore, “every border policy of the Trump administration” is to be restored and the Trump wall along the US-Mexico border is to be completed, as Newsweek the document continues to quote. However, it is questionable whether mass deportations according to Trump’s ideas would be legal and logistically feasible. According to the Department of Homeland Security and the Pew Research Center, around eleven million unregistered immigrants live in the USA. A number that has been relatively stable since 2005, as the BBC reported.
Problems with Trump’s deportation plans after the US election: Legal and logistical hurdles
The problem: Each of these immigrants has the right to a trial before he or she can be deported. And there are also major logistical hurdles to Trump’s plan. People are already being deported regularly at the border, but only around 100,000 illegal immigrants are deported in the USA each year. “To increase that number to one million in a single year would require significant resources that are probably not available,” Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, director of the American Immigration Council, told the BBC.
Things are getting exciting in the US election campaign
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During Trump’s entire first term, around 1.5 million people were deported. Under President Joe Biden the numbers are similar. By February 2024, 1.1 million had been deported under the Biden administration. Trump’s promise to deport at least one million immigrants per year seems unrealistic so far, at least. (sure)
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