President Trump in Iowa: “As soon as I take the oath of office, I’ll terminate ever open border policy of the Biden administration and begin the largest deportation operation in American history.” pic.twitter.com/0mdXPn1Gt1
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In this video of Trump speaking in Iowa, he says “As soon as I take the oath of office, I’ll terminate every open border policy of the Biden administration and begin the largest deportation operation in American history.” The video is from this Tweet.
What Trump is saying sounds much like his rhetoric last time. In his last term he did do some things about the immigration problems, but also he didn’t do a lot of what he said he was going to do. He often explained away the situations such as saying, “I would have started refusing asylum to people illegally entering the U.S., but an Obama-appointed federal judge told me that I can’t do that, etc..” (link) (Note: I think in that case Trump should have went ahead and simply stopped giving the asylum anyway even though a judge said that he couldn’t do that— he could have then let the judge try to sue him and have it turn into a national media issue.)
Even if Trump does win, it will not be for an entire year— while thousands of migrants are pouring over the border every day and they are given court dates for asylum hearings in the distant future, and in the meantime they are being distributed across the U.S. and signed up for welfare benefits.
It won’t be practical or usually even preferable to deport people unless they are completely undocumented or commit crimes. Most of the illegal immigrants are in the U.S. awaiting their asylum trials which will take place years from now while in the meantime they are working, collecting welfare, and having kids. So of course Trump will not realistically be able to deport them. Also sanctuary cities and states such as California would never allow deportations in even the most extreme of cases anyway.
Trump stressing “deportations” in his rhetoric are apparently a part of his divisive persona that will enable the Establishment media and celebrities to pretend as if they are inflamed by what he is saying.
Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” plan was a step in the right direction, but it wasn’t implemented until later in his administration, it still allowed the migrants to wait for asylum hearings, and it easily allowed the flow of immigration to start up again after Biden stole the election. And Trump’s supposed “wall” was actually simple to cut through and for anyone to crawl over with ladders.
Despite my issues with him, I do think Trump is much preferable to Biden. He can be effective as long as his supporters don’t unquestioningly trust him while sitting around waiting for him to do everything as they did last time. All presidents and almost all other politicians serve the same group of global elite individuals and they are required to do whatever they are told to do, so you can only count on a certain amount of cooperation from most politicians.
Without people knowing that the voting machines are rigged and the extent of all the other problems the United States will soon disappear.
Also see the article “A Summary of Immigration Issues in the United States.”