Tough immigration plan, among Donald Trump’s plans

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Donald Trump has long promised to deport millions of people, but now he is providing more details in his current bid for the White House: invoking wartime powers, relying on like-minded governors and using to the armed forces.

Trump’s record as president shows a yawning gap between his ambitions and the legal, fiscal and political realities of mass deportations of people in the United States illegally: 11 million by January 2022, according to the latest Department of Homeland Security estimate. National.

Former President Barack Obama carried out 432,000 deportations in 2013, the highest annual total since records have been kept.

Deportations under the Trump administration never reached 350,000. But he and Stephen Miller — his chief immigration policy architect — offered hints in interviews and rallies about taking a different approach if voters give them power again in November. They could benefit from lessons learned during his four years in office and, potentially, from more judges appointed by Trump.

“What Trump appears to be contemplating is potentially legal,” said Joseph Nunn, a staff attorney at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. “There may not be many legal barriers. In logistical terms it is going to be extraordinarily complicated and difficult. The military is not going to like doing that and they are going to move as slowly as they can. But it is possible, so it should be taken seriously.”

When Trump’s campaign team was asked how his promise would be carried out, he responded that Trump would undertake the largest deportation program in US history, without providing further details.

Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman, explained that Trump “would marshal all the federal and state power necessary to institute the largest deportation operation of criminals, drug traffickers and illegal human traffickers (in the country).”

Now the question is how Trump would overcome the legal challenges. Trump has said he would invoke the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law that allows the president to deport any noncitizen of a country with which the United States is at war.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott proposed the theory that illegal immigration amounts to invasion to justify state law enforcement measures. This has so far been unsuccessful, but legal experts say judges may be reluctant to question what a president considers foreign aggression.

The broad authority of the Alien Enemies Act can overturn a law that prohibits the military from enforcing civilian law. Trump has said he would focus on deploying the National Guard, whose troops can be activated by order of a governor. Miller says troops under supportive Republican governors would send troops to nearby states that refuse to participate.

Immigration Policy Advisor

Stephen Miller, Trump’s top immigration policy adviser, said:

The National Guard

“The Alabama National Guard is going to arrest immigrants in Alabama, and the Virginia Guard is going to arrest immigrants in Virginia. And if you’re going to go to a hostile state like Maryland, well, there the Virginia Guard would just make the arrest in Maryland,” Miller said on “The Charlie Kirk Show.”

Army involved

The military has been on the border since President George W. Bush’s administration with activities that are not considered law enforcement, such as surveillance and installing barbed wire.

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