What Trump’s Deportation Threats Really Mean
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What Trump’s Deportation Threats Really Mean

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LOADING ERROR LOADING In a Sunday interview with NBC News, President-elect Donald Trump repeated what is becoming one of the incoming administration’s most provocative talking points: When parents of U.S. citizens face deportation, his administration will deport the whole family together. “I don’t want to be breaking up families,” Trump said when asked how mass deportation would impact America’s roughly 4 million mixed-status families. “They have no jurisdiction to deport U.S. citizens — children or adults.” Instead, legal experts say that Trump and Homan are issuing threats to create a climate of fear while laying the groundwork for a campaign to pressure unauthorized immigrants to return to their home countries on their own, taking families that may include U.S. citizens with them. “However, when faced with the deportation of family members, families might make difficult choices about whether to leave the country with their relatives.” In some ways, Trump’s comments simply reflect the reality of removal proceedings. “For all intents and purposes, they were deported with their parents, but you have the legal fiction of them leaving voluntarily.” Trump’s attacks on U.S.-born children are also laying the groundwork for his broadside against birthright citizenship, Leopold said — the constitutionally protected standard of recognizing those born within the United States as American citizens.

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