A New York Times story titled Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportation: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans tells you all you need to know. All you need to understand that this country’s humanity, character, and integrity are on the line in November.
Trump has vowed to “carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”
The Times calls Trump’s plans “an assault on immigration on a scale unseen in modern American history. Millions of undocumented immigrants would be barred from the country or uprooted from it years or even decades after settling here.”
It was bad enough during Trump’s first term when, among other things, he separated thousands of children from their parents. Now this evil bastard not only wants to reinstate some of his draconian immigration policies of the past, he wants to expand and toughen them, the Times reported.
In this frightening abuse of power, Trump not only wants to conduct mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. He wants to exile many who are here legally as well. Hey, black and brown is black and brown. Right?
The face of Trump’s campaign of hate is a little piece of shit named Stephen Miller, a former White House aide. This worthless little racist was the chief architect of Trump’s border efforts while he was in office.
“Any activists who doubt President Trump’s resolve in the slightest are making a drastic error: Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular immigration crackdown,” Miller said. “The immigration legal activists won’t know what’s happening.”
Actually, they will know what’s happening. We all know what’s going to happen if we vote Trump back into office. Let’s take a look what the Times has found.
Trump plans to round up millions of undocumented immigrants and hold them in camps, probably in Texas, until they can be deported. They’d be built by the military under the authority of the Department of Homeland Security. (You can see Texas Republicans having a joyous organism at the thought of that. Another chance to treat a group of humans like the scum they perceive them to be.)
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will conduct sweeping raids in workplaces and other public areas to grab as many as possible. (Here comes the Gestapo, everyone.) That’s a lot of work, so Trump will use other federal agents and will deputize local police officers and National Guard members voluntarily contributed by Republican-run states.
You may have heard of a law called Posse Comitatus, which generally forbids the use of the armed forces for law enforcement purposes. Trump figures to get around that by invoking the Insurrection Act at the border, enabling the use of federal troops to apprehend migrants.
To speed up the process, and to shut off the legal options the detainees may have, he can expand a fast-track process called “expedited removal.” Doing this will deny undocumented immigrants the usual hearings and opportunities to file appeals, which has led to a large backlog of cases.
(Because the fastest way to eliminate people you really don’t see as people is to take away their rights. How about investing in making the asylum system go faster, instead of trying to shut it off to appeal to your base.)
To keep the ball rolling, Trump can invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel suspected members of drug cartels and criminal gangs without due process. (No innocent until proven guilty for these guys. See a trend here? All that due process stuff the Constitution talks about is for us, but not for them – the other.)
The Times wrote that the “Trump advisers’ version of abrupt mass deportations would be a recipe for social and economic turmoil, disrupting the housing market and major industries, including agriculture and the service sector.”
“Americans should understand these policy proposals are an authoritarian, often illegal, agenda that would rip apart nearly every aspect of America life – tanking the economy, violating the basic civil rights of millions of immigrants and native-born Americans alike,” said Todd Schulte, president of FWD.us, an immigration and criminal justice advocacy group that repeatedly fought the Trump administration.
Miller thinks all of this is just keen.
“Mass deportation will be a labor-market disruption celebrated by American workers, who will now be offered higher wages and better benefits to fill these jobs,” Miller said. Americans will also celebrate that our nation’s laws are now being applied equally, and that one select group is no longer magically exempt.”
(Or course. We can’t wait to see mobs of white Americans, who haven’t gotten around to filling all the job openings that exist in this country now, climbing all over themselves for the chance to pick vegetables and fruit under a blazing sun, wash dishes in a restaurant, or pursue any other types of menial endeavors immigrants are forced to accept in order to survive.)
But wait, as sickening as this all is, there’s more. Trump and his gang also plan to go after immigrants who are in this country legally, and to limit the number legally seeking asylum. Because when you hate one immigrant for no good reason, you have to hate them all.
According to the Times, here’s what he wants to do about legal immigration:
*Cancel the visas of foreign students who took part in anti-Israel or pro-Palestine protests. (No free speech for you.)
*Expand ideological screening of visa applicants to keep out what the Trump administration would consider undesirable attitudes. (Just call them the thought police.)
*Revoke the temporary protected status for people from countries deemed unsafe. This status allows them to lawfully live and work in the United States. Also, kick out people who’ve been allowed to live here temporarily for humanitarian reasons. (You’re on your own, Baby. Back to your hell holes. Pro-life forever.)
*End birthright citizen for children born in the United States to undocumented parents. (Birthright citizenship is enshrined in the Constitution, but don’t expect that document to carry much weight in Trump’s second administration.)
*Suspend the United States’ refugee program, categorically bar visitors from troubled countries, and reinstate his ban of people from several mostly Muslim-majority nations.
*Pressure other countries to help his efforts by included cooperation as a condition of any other bilateral agreement. (It’s called blackmail.)
*Have the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention invoke its public health emergency powers to refuse to hear any asylum claims by people arriving at the southern border, based on the claim that they could be carrying communicable diseases. (I imagine you can test for that if you wanted to, as opposed to shutting the door on everyone. But what fun is that?)
*Revive and expand “safe third country” agreements with other nations. In that case, countries would agree to take would-be asylum seekers from specific other nations and let them apply for asylum there instead.
Notably, Trump and his helpers haven’t said if they’d reinstate the policy of separating children from their parents, but he has repeatedly declined to rule that out.
As Miller said: “Bottom line. President Trump will do whatever it takes.”
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As you can see, this is an extensive, well-thought-out plan of action to get rid of people that Trump claims are “poisoning the blood of our country,” among other hysterical lies.
What about our system of checks and balance? Congress? As the Times explained, if it doesn’t appropriate the necessary funds for this venture, Trump will redirect the military budget, like he did to spend more on a border wall than Congress authorized.
The courts, which are layered with Trump appointees, including our corrupt U.S. Supreme Court? Miller explained that these extensive changes to the immigration system are based on existing statutes, as opposed to new legislation. Plus, Trump’s team is trying to create a “blitz” designed to overwhelm immigration-rights lawyers.
(In other words, we want to keep Congress out of this as much as possible, and our legal strategy is to make it harder for justice to prevail. See, I told you he was a piece of shit.)
Right-minded folks in the administration? Miller said they’ll be bringing in “the right kinds of attorneys and the right kinds of policy thinkers.” (Because that’s what fascist dictators do, replace those who might stand up to them with cronies who’ll stand in line to do their bidding.)
You can read the Times story here.
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So, there you have it folks. No country worth a damn would let Stephen Miller sweep up horseshit at the local stable, let alone be part of its government. This dangerous racist is the poster boy for what’s coming if we elect Trump.
This is the kind of country we’ll have. A country with policies based on hate, the hate dwelling in the hearts of the minority of our citizens who worship at the altar of Trump. Policies based on fear. A fear ginned up by a racist, corrupt Republican party to serve its own interest.
The problem is that with our Electoral College system a minority will be able to put Trump in office if the vote goes the right way in the right places. If that happens, the damage that’ll follow will be incalculable.
If we fail to stop him, hate and fear will prevail, all while humanity, empathy, and compassion will be less than an afterthought.
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