Trump promised the 'largest deportation' in U.S. history. Here's how he might start
1 month, 1 week ago

Trump promised the 'largest deportation' in U.S. history. Here's how he might start

NPR  

Trump promised the 'largest deportation' in U.S. history. What Trump said about deporting immigrants While campaigning, President-elect Donald Trump promised "On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program of criminals in the history of America." YouTube Trump may start by trying to remove newer arrivals and expanding deportation guidelines Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute, said Trump's mass deportation plan could begin with the removal of hundreds of thousands of new arrivals admitted under programs instituted by President Biden. Selee also said Trump could change deportation guidelines for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement so that the agency can arrest and put undocumented immigrants in deportation proceedings more freely. Trump's appointments signal seriousness about his enforcement actions This week, Trump announced he would make Tom Homan his "border czar" overseeing the north and south U.S. borders.

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Some parts of Trump’s deportation plan may be ‘Obama-esque.’ There’s a reason for that
6 days, 16 hours ago

Some parts of Trump’s deportation plan may be ‘Obama-esque.’ There’s a reason for that

CNN  

Washington CNN — President-elect Donald Trump promised mass deportation on the campaign trail, and while the scale of it remains vague, the elements of the plan are an unlikely call back to former President Barack Obama who was billed the “deporter-in-chief” by Democrats and immigrant advocates. Trump’s plans also include bringing back family detention, which has been widely criticized by …

Republican-led states are rolling out plans that could aid Trump’s mass deportation effort
1 week, 6 days ago

Republican-led states are rolling out plans that could aid Trump’s mass deportation effort

LA Times  

Tom Homan, right, Donald Trump’s pick for border czar, speaks to state troopers and National Guard troops at a facility on the Mexican border in Eagle Pass, Texas, as Gov. Other measures filed ahead of next year’s legislative sessions would require local law enforcement agencies to notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement when they take someone into custody who is …

Republican-led states are rolling out plans that could aid Trump’s mass deportation effort
2 weeks ago

Republican-led states are rolling out plans that could aid Trump’s mass deportation effort

Associated Press  

— As President-elect Donald Trump assembles his administration, Republican governors and lawmakers in some states are already rolling out proposals that could help him carry out his pledge to deport millions of people living in the U.S. illegally. In Missouri, Trent’s bill would empower local law officers to arrest people for a new state crime of “improper entry by an …

Trump lays out agenda, including mass deportations, in TV interview
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Trump lays out agenda, including mass deportations, in TV interview

Al Jazeera  

US president-elect promises to make good on election pledges of ending birthright citizenship and expanding tariffs. “You know, the people who have been treated unfairly are the people who have been waiting on line for 10 years to come into the country.” Trump said he was willing to work with Democrats to keep so-called “Dreamers”– undocumented people who came to …

Opinion: How Trump 2.0 could make mass deportation a reality
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Opinion: How Trump 2.0 could make mass deportation a reality

LA Times  

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to carry out mass deportations. But if “mass deportation” means a reshifting of core government priorities, reflected in countless actions, then we are indeed on the brink of an era of mass deportation. The Trump administration could understaff immigration offices designed to confer immigration benefits and concentrate instead on revoking statuses to leave people more …

Trump team considers 'illegal' workaround to speed up key campaign promise: report
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Trump team considers 'illegal' workaround to speed up key campaign promise: report

Raw Story  

Donald Trump's incoming administration intends to deport migrants to countries they've never visited if their home countries refuse to accept them, according to a new report. Three sources familiar with the plans say administration officials are preparing a list of countries – including but not limited to Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas, Panama and Grenada – where they would send …

Trump's mass deportation plan could end up hurting economic growth
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Trump's mass deportation plan could end up hurting economic growth

Raw Story  

President-elect Donald Trump's hardline immigration proposals -- including a controversial mass deportation plan -- could prove economically damaging, analysts say, with US sectors that rely heavily on foreign workers like agriculture and construction especially hard hit. "The construction and agriculture industries would lose at least one in eight workers, while in hospitality, about one in 14 workers would be deported …

Trump's Mass Deportations: What He Can Actually Do
1 month ago

Trump's Mass Deportations: What He Can Actually Do

Huff Post  

In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election to a second term as president, attention has turned to his highest-profile campaign promise: the mass deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants living in the United States. And Homan said earlier this month that the “massive deportation operation” would be focused on “those people entering the country illegally, which is a crime.” It’s …

'Terrorized': Expert says Trump is relying on fear to fulfill his biggest campaign promise
1 month ago

'Terrorized': Expert says Trump is relying on fear to fulfill his biggest campaign promise

Raw Story  

President-elect Donald Trump is counting on panic to achieve what his administration cannot do alone — keep the primary promise of his presidential campaign, according to a legal expert. Dara Lind, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, detailed in a New York Times editorial Thursday the many ways Trump is counting on fear to overcome the hurdles of …

Trump confirms deportation strategy will include national emergency declaration and military
1 month ago

Trump confirms deportation strategy will include national emergency declaration and military

LA Times  

President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to execute mass deportations of immigrants in the U.S. illegally will involve the military and a national emergency declaration, he confirmed Monday. In a Nov. 8 post on Trump’s social media platform Truth Social, Tom Fitton, who leads the conservative legal group Judicial Watch, wrote: “GOOD NEWS: Reports are the incoming @RealDonaldTrump administration prepared to declare …

'Don't have the discipline': Ex-GOP staffer scoffs at pricy Trump deportation plan
1 month, 1 week ago

'Don't have the discipline': Ex-GOP staffer scoffs at pricy Trump deportation plan

Raw Story  

A powerful conservative communications strategist doesn't believe Republicans will be able to come up with the cash for President-elect Donald Trump's massive deportation plans, he said Wednesday. Brendan Buck, onetime press secretary to former House Speaker John Boehner, appeared on MSNBC Wednesday to discuss Trump's potential to streamline campaign promises that will come with hefty price tags. Donald Trump wants …

Breaking down Trump’s deportation agenda
1 month, 1 week ago

Breaking down Trump’s deportation agenda

Politico  

Breaking down Trump’s deportation agenda What up, Recast fam! Today’s agenda: Donald Trump’s senior adviser on Latinos discusses immigration under the second administration The political duopoly that has reigned in Puerto Rico took a bit hit Goodbye “Little Marco” and hello “Mr. He believes Miller and Homan will bring back Trump’s previous migration-deterrent policies that the Biden administration had abandoned, …

4 ways Trump’s mass deportation plans could hurt your finances
1 month, 1 week ago

4 ways Trump’s mass deportation plans could hurt your finances

CNN  

CNN — President-elect Donald Trump has made tougher immigration enforcement a key campaign promise in each of his White House bids. That contributes to the overall US economy: If current immigration levels are sustained, the country’s real gross domestic product could increase by 0.2 percentage points each year over the next decade, leaving it 2% higher in 2034, according to …

4 ways Trump’s mass deportation plans could hurt your finances
1 month, 1 week ago

4 ways Trump’s mass deportation plans could hurt your finances

CNN  

CNN — President-elect Donald Trump has made tougher immigration enforcement a key campaign promise in each of his White House bids. That contributes to the overall US economy: If current immigration levels are sustained, the country’s real gross domestic product could increase by 0.2 percentage points each year over the next decade, leaving it 2% higher in 2034, according to …

Deportations actually dropped under Trump during first presidency
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1 month, 1 week ago

Deportations actually dropped under Trump during first presidency

CNN  

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. CNN — Given his rhetoric demonizing undocumented immigrants and his promise to engage in mass deportations when he returns to the White House in January, it’s kind of shocking that deportations actually dropped in the four years Donald Trump was president. Trump also authorized immigration raids at businesses, something …

Deportations actually dropped under Trump during first presidency
1 month, 1 week ago

Deportations actually dropped under Trump during first presidency

CNN  

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. CNN — Given his rhetoric demonizing undocumented immigrants and his promise to engage in mass deportations when he returns to the White House in January, it’s kind of shocking that deportations actually dropped in the four years Donald Trump was president. Trump also authorized immigration raids at businesses, something …

Ramaswamy backs Trump’s mass deportations as ‘pragmatic’ approach
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Ramaswamy backs Trump’s mass deportations as ‘pragmatic’ approach

Politico  

Ramaswamy said the “pragmatic” approach would include deporting illegal immigrants who have committed a crime — which he said would already bring “the largest mass deportation in history.” He also said there should be no federal aid allowed to help subsidize illegal immigration. “Not to sanctuary cities, not to federal aid to people in this country illegally, and we’ll see …

'Going to pay a lot more': Here’s how Trump’s deportations will lead to huge tax increases
1 month, 2 weeks ago

'Going to pay a lot more': Here’s how Trump’s deportations will lead to huge tax increases

Raw Story  

President-elect Donald Trump ran on deporting millions of undocumented immigrants if he won a second term. Reuters reported earlier this week that Trump's plan to deport a significant portion of the 13 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States would cost roughly $968 billion over a 10-year period. However, as Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston told MSNBC …

Trump advisers ramp up work on mass deportation push
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump advisers ramp up work on mass deportation push

Live Mint  

WASHINGTON : Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump are drawing up plans to carry out his mass deportation pledge, including discussing how to pay for it and weighing a national emergency declaration that would allow the incoming administration to repurpose military assets to detain and remove migrants. As a first step, Trump’s advisers are discussing issuing a national emergency declaration at …

Donald Trump reveals his one major priority after taking office in January: ‘Would have no choice but…’
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Donald Trump reveals his one major priority after taking office in January: ‘Would have no choice but…’

Hindustan Times  

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday revealed one of his top goals when he takes office in January. Trump has repeatedly promised to implement the “largest deportation effort in American history.” Speaking to NBC News, Trump stated that he saw his landslide victory over Democratic rival Kamala Harris as a directive “to bring common sense” to the nation. Trump on immigration …

GOP aide slams Dem's 'hyperbole' and 'fearmongering' after she reads Trump campaign quote
1 month, 2 weeks ago

GOP aide slams Dem's 'hyperbole' and 'fearmongering' after she reads Trump campaign quote

Raw Story  

Part of the post-mortem conversation about the 2024 election surrounds slippage in Latino men voting to support Democratic candidates. Let's focus on the extenders that are going to expire, so we can have an agenda and focus on immigration," said Machalagh Carr, former chief of staff to ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Democratic strategist Maria Cardona said several Latino groups conducted a …

President Trump 2.0: Mass deportation programme and oil drilling to launch on first day in office
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

President Trump 2.0: Mass deportation programme and oil drilling to launch on first day in office

The Telegraph  

In Donald Trump’s own words, his second term will be “nasty a little bit at times, and maybe at the beginning in particular”. His “day one” agenda involves rapid and aggressive action to target illegal immigration, a mass purge of the federal government and a grievance-filled agenda to pursue opponents. Mass deportation Trump has pledged to dramatically curb illegal immigration …

Trump may revoke money from law enforcement agencies that defy deportation plan: report
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trump may revoke money from law enforcement agencies that defy deportation plan: report

Raw Story  

Donald Trump, who has been endorsed by the union of local law enforcement officers at the Fraternal Order of Police, may threaten to revoke funding for local police departments that refuse to go along with his mass deportation plan, should he be elected, NBC News reported Wednesday. "A study by the Center for Migration Studies estimates undocumented workers contribute $97bn …

Trump's mass deportation plan of undocumented migrants offers few specifics
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trump's mass deportation plan of undocumented migrants offers few specifics

NPR  

Trump's mass deportation plan of undocumented migrants offers few specifics Immigration has been a major issue of the presidential campaign. INSKEEP: NPR immigration correspondent Jasmine Garsd has been asking how that would work based on what the candidates have said. He also has said he would use local police, and Trump and his allies have talked about invoking the Insurrection …

Trump Announces Deportation Plan: 'Largest Deportation Programme in History'
2 months ago

Trump Announces Deportation Plan: 'Largest Deportation Programme in History'

Live Mint  

Former US President Donald Trump has made a bold promise to launch the largest deportation programme in American history if he wins the 2024 presidential election. Trump's plan includes shutting down the border to illegal migration within the 'first hour of the first day' of his administration, focusing on gang members and criminal elements among immigrants. He also announced his …

Trump says he’ll undertake the ‘largest deportation’ in U.S. history. Can he do that?
2 months ago

Trump says he’ll undertake the ‘largest deportation’ in U.S. history. Can he do that?

LA Times  

Donald Trump, at an unfinished section of border wall in Texas in 2021, now says he’ll invoke the 18th century Alien Enemies Act to enable mass deportations if elected. “If you’re in the country illegally, you better be looking over your shoulder.” Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said the administration would start by deporting immigrants who have committed crimes. …

Trump warns he’ll expel 1 million immigrants allowed into U.S. under key Biden programs
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Trump warns he’ll expel 1 million immigrants allowed into U.S. under key Biden programs

LA Times  

Former President Trump says he would expel the more than 1 million people who entered the U.S. under two Biden administration programs. Former President Trump, who has made anti-immigration rhetoric a key part of his reelection campaign, has warned that he would kick out hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have entered the country under two key Biden administration programs …

Election 2024: Harris criticizes Trump's promise of mass deportations as Trump rallies on Long Island
3 months ago

Election 2024: Harris criticizes Trump's promise of mass deportations as Trump rallies on Long Island

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday criticized Republican Donald Trump ‘s promise to deport millions of people who are in the United States illegally, questioning whether he would rely on massive raids and detention camps to carry it out. Trump, for his part, leaned heavily on his alarmist message on immigration as he held a rally in Uniondale …

Inside Trump’s 'Nightmare' Plans For Mass Deportation Camps
3 months, 1 week ago

Inside Trump’s 'Nightmare' Plans For Mass Deportation Camps

Huff Post  

Five years ago, Kris Kobach, Kansas’ former secretary of state, announced on Fox Business Network that, in order to quickly deport undocumented immigrants seeking asylum in the United States, the Trump administration would need “camps.” Or, as he also put it, “processing towns.” The U.S. government owns “thousands of empty mobile home trailers,” Kobach told host Lou Dobbs, and it …

Trump promises mass deportations of undocumented people — but how would that work?
4 months ago

Trump promises mass deportations of undocumented people — but how would that work?

Raw Story  

WASHINGTON — “Mass deportation now!” is a catchphrase for the Trump presidential campaign, as the Republican nominee proposes a crackdown on immigration that would oust thousands of undocumented people. At the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July, delegates waved “Mass Deportation Now” signs as Trump said “to keep our families safe, the Republican platform promises to launch the largest …

What Trump's time as president tells us about his promise of mass deportations : Consider This from NPR
4 months, 1 week ago

What Trump's time as president tells us about his promise of mass deportations : Consider This from NPR

NPR  

What Trump's time as president tells us about his promise of mass deportations Enlarge this image toggle caption Leon Neal/Getty Images Leon Neal/Getty Images Donald Trump won the White House the first time in part by promising an aggressive crackdown on immigration. "Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until …

Trump touts historic deportation plans, but his own record reveals big obstacles
4 months, 1 week ago

Trump touts historic deportation plans, but his own record reveals big obstacles

NPR  

Trump touts historic deportation plans, but his own record reveals big obstacles toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images At the Republican National Convention this summer, hundreds of attendees waved signs demanding "Mass Deportation Now!" Trump himself has talked about enlisting local law enforcement and National Guard troops to extend ICE's reach, while some of his allies have even floated the idea …

Trump has promised deportations on an unprecedented scale
5 months ago

Trump has promised deportations on an unprecedented scale

NPR  

Trump has promised deportations on an unprecedented scale The idea of deporting millions of undocumented immigrants gained traction during the RNC. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The Republican National Convention wrapped up yesterday with a speech from former President Donald Trump, where he focused largely on immigration. SHAPIRO: So to the promises that Donald Trump made last night, one of the things …

Trump's biggest campaign promise would cause 'economic disaster': analysis
7 months ago

Trump's biggest campaign promise would cause 'economic disaster': analysis

Raw Story  

Donald Trump's promised crackdown on immigration could inflict mass misery and economic calamity, according to a new analysis. The former president's radical plans for a potential second term in office include barring entry from select Muslim-majority nations, denying all asylum claims and rounding up millions of undocumented immigrants for deportation, and economic analyst Robert Shapiro warned in a new Washington …

Donald Trump plans sweeping undocumented immigrant roundups, detention camps
1 year, 1 month ago

Donald Trump plans sweeping undocumented immigrant roundups, detention camps

Live Mint  

Former U.S. President Donald Trump, if re-elected in 2024, would expand his first-term immigration crackdown to include sweeping roundups of people who would be held in large camps to await deportation, the New York Times reported on Saturday. The Biden-Harris campaign in a statement called Trump's immigration plans "extreme, racist, cruel policies" that are "meant to stoke fear and divide …

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