Is this the America you love? Is this the America you want? Trump is telling you exactly what he plans to do. Believe him.
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ELECTION 2024Trump leans into mass deportationsEx-president asserts plan would target up to 20 million people
By Stephen Groves Associated PressWASHINGTON — “Mass Deportation Now!” declared the signs at the Republican National Convention, giving a full embrace to Donald Trump’s pledge to expel millions of migrants in the largest deportation program in American history.
Some Republicans aren’t quite ready for that.
Lauren B. Peña, a Republican activist from Texas, said that hearing Trump’s calls for mass deportations, as well as terms like “illegals” and “invasion” thrown around at the convention, made her feel uncomfortable.
Like some Republicans in Congress who have advanced balanced approaches to immigration, she hopes Trump is just blustering.
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“He’s not meaning to go and deport every family that crosses the border, he means deport the criminals and the sex offenders,” Peña, 33, said.
But Trump and his advisers have other plans.
He is putting immigration at the heart of his campaign to retake the White House and pushing the Republican Party toward a bellicose strategy that hearkens back to the 1950s when former President Dwight D. Eisenhower launched a deportation policy known by a racial slur — “Operation Wetback.”
Trump, when pressed for specifics on his plan in an interview with Time Magazine this year, suggested he would use the National Guard, and possibly even the military, to target 15 million to 20 million people — though the government estimated in 2022 there were 11 million migrants living in the U.S. without permanent legal permission.
His plans have raised the stakes of this year’s election beyond fortifying the southern border, a longtime conservative priority, to the question of whether America should make a fundamental change in its approach to immigration.
After the southern border saw a historic number of crossings during the Biden administration, Democrats have also moved rightward on the issue, often leading with promises of border security before talking about relief for the immigrants who are already in the country.
Latino voters could be pivotal in many swing states.
Trump won 35% of Hispanic voters in 2020, according to AP VoteCast, and support for stronger border enforcement measures has grown among Hispanic voters.
But an AP analysis of two consecutive polls conducted in June by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that about half of Hispanic Americans have a somewhat or very unfavorable view of Trump.
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GOP lawmakers have largely embraced Trump’s plans.
“It’s needed,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said at a July interview at the conservative Hudson Institute.
Some, however, have shown tacit skepticism by suggesting more modest goals.
Sen. James Lankford, an Oklahoma Republican, pointed to over 1 million people who have already received a final order of removal from an immigration judge and said, “There’s a difference between those that are in the process right now and those that are finished with the process.”
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Are we as ignorant as the Germans and Italians were when Hitler and Mussolini told them what would happen?
Even Hitler didn’t round up 15-20 million people. During the war, Nazi military forces rounded up 11 million victims.
Trump says he will outdo that.
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Hitler had Heinrich Himmler. Trump has Stephen Miller. Himmler/Miller, odd how similar the names are.
Trump entered office in 2016 with similar promises of mass deportation but “only” succeeded in deporting about 1.5 million people.
This time, though, there’s a plan.
Trump has worked with Stephen Miller, a former top aide who is expected to take a senior role in the White House if Trump wins.
Miller describes a Trump administration that will work with “utter determination” to accomplish two goals: “Seal the border. Deport all the illegals.”
To accomplish that, Trump would revive travel bans from countries deemed undesirable, such as majority-Muslim countries.
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He would launch a sweeping operation by deputizing the National Guard to round up immigrants, hold them in massive camps and put them on deportation flights before they could make legal appeals.
Beyond that, Trump has also pledged to end birthright citizenship— a 125-year-old right in the United States.
Trump even would deport many children who were born in America.
And several of his top advisers have laid out a sweeping policy vision through the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 that would choke off other forms of legal migration.
“Hold them in camps.” Trump’s America.
The Trump administration, under those plans, could also grind to a halt temporary programs for over 1 million migrants, including recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Ukrainians and Afghans who fled recent conflicts as well as others who receive temporary protection due to unrest in their home country.
The policies would have far-reaching disruptions in major industries like housing and agriculture.
“If the 75,000-plus immigrants who perform the hardest of work in Wisconsin’s dairy and agriculture were gone tomorrow, the state economy would tank,” said Jorge Franco, the CEO of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin.
Meanwhile, Democrats feel Trump’s threats are motivating Latino voters.
“The mass deportation put a lot of people on high alert,” said María Teresa Kumar, the CEO of Voto Latino, a leading voter registration organization that is backing Democrat Kamala Harris.
5 thoughts on “Is this really the America you want?”
Trumpelstiltskin can take his ridiculously stupid plans and shove them up his ass. The catastrophe this would cause all over the world is either something he cannot see, or something he does not care about.
The “man” is an insane inhumane fool of epic proportions. But he is playing on White Replacement fears, hoping enough White people are racists and will give him the presidency. If America gives him a mandate, they are signing their own death certificate.
Who does he think is going to do sll those jobs most White persons think are beneath them, or too manual to get their fingers dirty? He will destroy the economy from its roots up. He may believe his plan will work, but he cannot see the biggest picture — if you take away the base, the building will crumble. It is a prediction I do not want to see come true!
But if it must, sobeit. The rest of the world does not need America, but America needs the rest of the world!
I blame the people who, knowing what they know, still support him. If he wins, they will receive the pain they deserve. Sadly, the rest of us will endure the same pain. The Germans, Italians, Argentinians and many other peoples have learned what a dictatorship brings.
Trump has less power now than he did in office to overturn the results, but the Republican state legislators have more, and the judges may not be able to stop them this time.
This post focuses on the moral repugnance one should feel at the notion of deporting “up to 20 million” men, women and children, the vast majority of whom are good law-abiding members of American society.
Clearly, the oh-so-religious right has no moral repugnance to feel, so I’ll quote some economic factors, as written in the August 16, 2024, issue of The Week Magazine:
Ed Kilgore New York magazine
Donald Trump is vowing to “carry out the largest deportation operations in American history,” said Ed Kilgore.
At the Republican National Convention in July, beaming delegates waved “Mass Deportation Now!” signs. But hunting down more than 10 million undocumented immigrants, locking them up in vast detention camps, and flying or trucking them back to their countries of origin would be wildly unpopular, impractical, and economically ruinous.
A recent Pew survey found only 37 percent of Americans support such radical plans, which would necessarily require a vast national scheme of surveillance, racial and ethnic profiling, and daily “scenes of violence and misery.”
In 2023, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spent $420 million to deport 142,580 people. Deporting millions of people would easily cost tens of billions.
There would be additional, “astronomical” costs for detaining migranst for week or months, and a “spectacular increase” in the burden on already clogged immigration courts.
Meanwhile, the loss of millions of migrant workers in faring, construction, and other industries would raise prices, ramp up inflation, and likely trigger recession.
If Trump’s “un-American plan comes to fruition, it will wreak havoc on our nation, and Republicans will come to regret it.
As usual, Trump neither knows nor cares about simple facts, which means his MAGA followers also don’t know or care.
So, they will vote for the Hitler wannabe, and if he should win the election (or lose it and claim he won), the MAGAs will celebrate their future enslavement.
Ask Germans and Italians to describe what that’s like.
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Trumpelstiltskin can take his ridiculously stupid plans and shove them up his ass. The catastrophe this would cause all over the world is either something he cannot see, or something he does not care about.
The “man” is an insane inhumane fool of epic proportions. But he is playing on White Replacement fears, hoping enough White people are racists and will give him the presidency. If America gives him a mandate, they are signing their own death certificate.
Who does he think is going to do sll those jobs most White persons think are beneath them, or too manual to get their fingers dirty? He will destroy the economy from its roots up. He may believe his plan will work, but he cannot see the biggest picture — if you take away the base, the building will crumble. It is a prediction I do not want to see come true!
But if it must, sobeit. The rest of the world does not need America, but America needs the rest of the world!
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I don’t blame Trump. He is a proven psychopath. (See: https://mythfighter.com/2019/07/28/a-psychopath-slipped-into-the-white-house/) He can’t help himself.
I blame the people who, knowing what they know, still support him. If he wins, they will receive the pain they deserve. Sadly, the rest of us will endure the same pain. The Germans, Italians, Argentinians and many other peoples have learned what a dictatorship brings.
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Seems that 40% of the USA thinks dictatoeship is good — but only if Trump is in charge. What he has to hold them with, I really don’t know.
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And the election will be only the start of the Republican effort to control the vote: https://mailchi.mp/gregpalast/prepare-for-the-quiet-coup
Trump has less power now than he did in office to overturn the results, but the Republican state legislators have more, and the judges may not be able to stop them this time.
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This post focuses on the moral repugnance one should feel at the notion of deporting “up to 20 million” men, women and children, the vast majority of whom are good law-abiding members of American society.
Clearly, the oh-so-religious right has no moral repugnance to feel, so I’ll quote some economic factors, as written in the August 16, 2024, issue of The Week Magazine:
Ed Kilgore New York magazine
Donald Trump is vowing to “carry out the largest deportation operations in American history,” said Ed Kilgore.
At the Republican National Convention in July, beaming delegates waved “Mass Deportation Now!” signs. But hunting down more than 10 million undocumented immigrants, locking them up in vast detention camps, and flying or trucking them back to their countries of origin would be wildly unpopular, impractical, and economically ruinous.
A recent Pew survey found only 37 percent of Americans support such radical plans, which would necessarily require a vast national scheme of surveillance, racial and ethnic profiling, and daily “scenes of violence and misery.”
In 2023, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spent $420 million to deport 142,580 people. Deporting millions of people would easily cost tens of billions.
There would be additional, “astronomical” costs for detaining migranst for week or months, and a “spectacular increase” in the burden on already clogged immigration courts.
Meanwhile, the loss of millions of migrant workers in faring, construction, and other industries would raise prices, ramp up inflation, and likely trigger recession.
If Trump’s “un-American plan comes to fruition, it will wreak havoc on our nation, and Republicans will come to regret it.
As usual, Trump neither knows nor cares about simple facts, which means his MAGA followers also don’t know or care.
So, they will vote for the Hitler wannabe, and if he should win the election (or lose it and claim he won), the MAGAs will celebrate their future enslavement.
Ask Germans and Italians to describe what that’s like.
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