Former President Donald Trump is planning a crackdown on immigration if he is elected for a second term next year – including rounding up illegal immigrants and holding them in massive detention camps while they wait to be deported from the country, according to reports.
The leading contender for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination aims to deport millions of people each year, several advisers told The New York Times.
The plan would not only target the nearly 4 million immigrants who have crossed the US border since President Biden took office in 2021, but would include those who have lived in the country for decades.
Trump’s immigration crackdown would revive some of the rules he introduced during his presidency — such as a ban on people from certain Muslim-majority countries — and introduce new policies that would speed up deportations, the newspaper reported.
The former commander-in-chief, 77, will appoint local police and National Guard troops volunteered by Republican-controlled states to assist US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in arresting undocumented people, the source said.
Former President Donald Trump delivers a speech during a campaign event on November 11, 2023, in Claremont, New Hampshire. Getty Images
The immigrants will then be herded into the newly built mass detention camps, which will be set up to reduce the swelling at the ICE facilities that Trump wants to fill.
If Congress refuses to approve the massive operation, Trump will divert Pentagon funding as he did with his border wall in his first term.
The Biden-Harris campaign released a statement slamming the supposed immigration plan, calling it an “extreme, racist, brutal policy” that is “meant to stoke fear and divide us, risking a country that is scared is how he won this election.”
Migrants from Colombia camp on the US side of the border wall after crossing the border from Mexico in Jacumba Hot Springs, California, on November 10, 2023.REUTERS Migrants and migrant children return to the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, NY on Sep 6, 2023. Christopher Sadowski
The surge in immigrants entering the US over the past few years has been a major campaign point on both party lines.
Trump has repeatedly vowed to quell the crisis on the southern border, pledging last month to reinstate a ban on immigrants entering the US “from countries plagued by terrorism” if he is re-elected.
“If you come from a place full of people who want to kill the American people, we’re not going to let you in,” Trump said during a speech in Clive, Iowa.
“We are not bringing in anyone from Gaza or Syria or Somalia, Yemen, or Libya, or anywhere else that threatens our security,” he vowed.
Trump has previously called for “strong ideological screening of all immigrants” and aggressive deportation of illegal immigrants with “jihadist sympathies.”
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