EDINBURG, Texas – Donald Trump will return to the US-Mexico border for a visit Sunday as he promotes a hardline immigration agenda that will be far broader than the policies he pursued during his first term as president.
Trump is scheduled to deliver a speech in Edinburg, Texas, after serving food to National Guard soldiers, soldiers and others who will be stationed at the border for Thanksgiving. He will be joined by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, a longtime ally and fellow border hawk who is expected to support the front-runner for the 2024 nomination during the visit, according to a person close to Trump who spoke on condition of anonymity before the official announcement.
Trump has unveiled immigration proposals that would mark a dramatic uptick in the approach he used in office and that have drawn concern from civil rights activists and multiple court challenges.
“On my first day back in the White House, I will end every open border policy of the Biden administration. I will stop the invasion of our southern border and begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” he said in Iowa Saturday.
President Trump will lay out his immigration agenda in a border visit Sunday, with priorities that go beyond what he sought during his term in office.AP
He also wants to:
- reinstated and expanded his controversial travel ban, which initially targeted seven Muslim-majority countries. Trump’s initial executive order was fought all the way to the US Supreme Court, which upheld what Trump complained was a “watered down” version that included tourists from North Korea and some Venezuelan officials.
- institute new “ideological screening” for all immigrants, aimed at preventing “Christian-hating communists and Marxists” and “dangerous lunatics, haters, bigots and lunatics” from entering the United States. “Those who come and join our country must love our country,” he said.
- stop those who support Hamas. “If you sympathize with radical Islamic terrorists and extremists, you are disqualified,” Trump said. “If you want to eliminate the state of Israel, you are disqualified. If you support Hamas or any ideology related to that or any other really sick thoughts that come into people’s minds — very dangerous thoughts — you are disqualified.”
- deporting immigrants living in the country who harbor “jihadist sympathies” and sending immigration agents to “pro-jihad demonstrations” to identify violators. He would target foreigners on college campuses and revoke the student visas of those who express anti-American or antisemitic views.
- invoke the Alien Enemy Act to remove from the United States all known or suspected gang members and drug traffickers. The law was used to justify concentration camps in World War II. It allows the president to unilaterally detain and deport non-US citizens.
- ended the constitutional right to birthright citizenship by signing an executive order on his first day in office that would codify a legally untested reinterpretation of the 14th Amendment. Under his order, only children with at least one US citizen or legal permanent resident parent will be eligible for passports, Social Security numbers and other benefits.
- end all work permits and cut funding for shelter and transportation for people who are in the country illegally.
- building more walls along the border, cracking down on legal asylum seekers and re-implementing measures like Title 42, which allows Trump to turn away immigrants at the US-Mexico border on the grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19.
- pressure Congress to pass a law so that anyone caught trafficking women or children will receive the death penalty.
- shift federal law enforcement agents, including FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration personnel, to immigration enforcement, and redeploy to the southern border thousands of troops currently stationed overseas. “Before we defend the borders of foreign countries we must ensure the borders of our country,” he said.
A Trump supporter awaits his arrival at South Texas International Airport on Sunday.AP
Trump has made frequent visits to the border as a candidate and president. During his 2016 campaign, he traveled to Laredo, Texas in July 2015 for a visit that highlighted how his views on immigration helped him win media attention and support from the GOP base.
The border has also been a focus of Abbott’s agenda and the subject of a growing fight with the Biden administration over immigration. The three-term governor has approved billions of dollars in construction of a new border wall, authorized razor wire on the banks of the Rio Grande and brought thousands of immigrants to Democratic-led cities across the United States.
Trump is expected to speak in Edinburg, Texas.AP
Abbott is expected to sign what would be one of Texas’ most aggressive measures to date: legislation that would allow police officers to arrest immigrants suspected of entering the country illegally and give judges the power to effectively deport them. The move is a dramatic challenge to the US government’s authority over immigration. It has already drawn criticism from Mexico.
A Marquette Law School poll of registered voters conducted in late September gave Trump a 24-point lead over Biden on immigration and border security issues — 52% to 28%.
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