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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaddowBlog-Team Trump eyes militarized deportations, detention camps in second term
At the heart of Donald Trump's second term immigration plans are militarized mass deportations and mass detention camps. It's a promise he intends to keep.
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The Washington Post reported this week, for example, that the Republican, during his term, was obsessed with involving the U.S. military in border enforcement, and he intends to follow through on his unfinished business if given the opportunity.
The likely GOP nominees political operation hasnt denied any of this. On the contrary, a Trump campaign spokesperson told the Post that the Republican would marshal every federal and state power necessary to institute the largest deportation operation in American history......
In other words, if voters reward Trump with a second term, he intends to use local police departments to track down undocumented immigrants, many of whom would then be housed in mass deportation camps.
Mass detention camps, attempts to deny children born here citizenship, uprooting families with mass deportations this is the horrifying reality that awaits the American people if Donald Trump is allowed anywhere near the Oval Office again, President Joe Bidens re-election campaign said in November. These extreme, racist, cruel policies dreamed up by him and his henchman Stephen Miller are meant to stoke fear and divide us, betting a scared and divided nation is how he wins this election.
Trump pledges that as president he would immediately launch the largest domestic deportation operation in American history. As a model, he points to an Eisenhower-era program known as Operation Wetback, using a derogatory slur for Mexican migrants. The operation used military tactics to round up and remove migrant workers, sometimes transporting them in dangerous conditions that led to some deaths. Former administration officials and policy experts said staging an even larger operation today would face a bottleneck in detention space a problem that Trump adviser Stephen Miller and other allies have proposed addressing by building mass deportation camps.
The likely GOP nominees political operation hasnt denied any of this. On the contrary, a Trump campaign spokesperson told the Post that the Republican would marshal every federal and state power necessary to institute the largest deportation operation in American history......
In other words, if voters reward Trump with a second term, he intends to use local police departments to track down undocumented immigrants, many of whom would then be housed in mass deportation camps.
Mass detention camps, attempts to deny children born here citizenship, uprooting families with mass deportations this is the horrifying reality that awaits the American people if Donald Trump is allowed anywhere near the Oval Office again, President Joe Bidens re-election campaign said in November. These extreme, racist, cruel policies dreamed up by him and his henchman Stephen Miller are meant to stoke fear and divide us, betting a scared and divided nation is how he wins this election.
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MaddowBlog-Team Trump eyes militarized deportations, detention camps in second term (Original Post)
LetMyPeopleVote
Feb 2024
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Trump calls for mass detention camps and rounding up millions of Latinos
LetMyPeopleVote
Feb 2024
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Botany
(77,702 posts)1. In a 2nd term.
Go for it GOP please make that man the face
of your party. It is not like he has any baggage or sold out America.
LetMyPeopleVote
(181,278 posts)2. Trump calls for mass detention camps and rounding up millions of Latinos