In two interviews with Time magazine recently, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump laid out his ambitious blueprint to deport the illegal-alien invaders that the Biden administration has illegally helped enter and colonize the country.
Though Trump’s renewed border-control plan involves myriad aspects, its key provision is mass deportations. And, if necessary, the military will be deployed to help. The former president’s goal is deporting 15-20 million illegals.
That’s a tall order, given the damage Biden has done.
The Interview
Trump released his plan last year, with more details unspooling early this year. Answering Time’s questions, the presidential hopeful was clear: If he becomes president, the border treason from the White House ends.
“We have no choice,” Trump told Time of the planned mass deportations, which will be modeled on President Dwight Eisenhower’s “Operation Wetback” that was managed by Lieutenant General Jumpin’ Joe Swing, famed leader of the Army’s 11th Airborne during World War II:
I don’t believe this is sustainable for a country, what’s happening to us, with probably 15 million and maybe as many as 20 million [illegals] by the time Biden’s out. Twenty million people, many of them from jails, many of them from prisons, many of them from mental institutions. I mean, you see what’s going on in Venezuela and other countries. They’re becoming a lot safer.
Trump — who in December vowed to reverse Biden’s open-borders policies and undertake the “largest domestic deportation operation in American history” — said his Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will employ “local law enforcement” and “start with the criminals.”
To remove them, notably the gang members, Trump also plans to trigger the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. The Alien Enemies Act, now 50 U.S. Code 21-24, permits the president to deport any foreigner deemed dangerous to the country:
Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or government, and the President makes public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall be within the United States and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies.
Trump also envisions using the military, meaning the National Guard. And if the Guard needs help, Trump might well deploy the rest of the military where necessary.
When the Time reporter told Trump that the “Posse Comitatus Act says that you can’t deploy the U.S. military against civilians” and asked whether he would “override” it, Trump explained that the illegals “aren’t civilians”:
These are people that aren’t legally in our country. This is an invasion of our country. An invasion like probably no country has ever seen before. They’re coming in by the millions. I believe we have 15 million now. And I think you’ll have 20 million by the time this ends. And that’s bigger than almost every state. …
I can see myself using the National Guard and, if necessary, I’d have to go a step further. We have to do whatever we have to do to stop the problem we have. Again, we have a major force that’s forming in our country, when you see that over the last three weeks, 29,000 people came in from China, and they’re all fighting age, and they’re mostly males. Yeah, you have to do what you have to do to stop crime and to stop what’s taking place at the border.
Trump also confirmed that he would, if necessary, build new “migrant camps” to hold illegals before deportation.
Trump said he would abide by the inevitable court decisions arising from leftist lawfare to stop him, and that he will finish building a border wall.
20 Million
The mass deportations will require resources that ICE doesn’t have now, former ICE chief Tom Homan told the New York Post:
A lot of that is going to be up to Congress. … We need officers, we need detention beds, we need transportation contracts … because [we would have] more flights heading out of the country and more bus removals down to the border.
We would still prioritize criminals and national security threats first, they are the most dangerous for the country. But I would say no one is off the table. If you’re in this country illegally… then we’ll remove you.
That promise contrasts with orders from Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who unilaterally — and illegally — stopped deportations.
“There’s no doubt that ICE would benefit from a significant increase in officers, agents and detention space,” former ICE chief of staff Jon Feere told the Post.
Feere said “every part” of the federal government linked to immigration, including the state and health and human services departments and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, “has a role to play” in removing Biden’s invaders.
Nations that refuse to take back the illegals they sent here can expect visa sanctions.
“When a country hears that the United States will not allow its residents in if they don’t take their people back, those countries quickly cooperate,” Feere said.
Cities and states that don’t cooperate can expect “large operations.”
Since February 2021, the first full month of Biden’s term, border agents have encountered almost 9.3 million illegals nationwide, almost all at the southwest border but increasingly at the border with Canada.
Biden has released millions, and as well has flown approximately a half-million directly in the country. Immigration experts told the Post they are here to stay.
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