ANALYSIS – Part one. Former President Donald Trump’s laser focus on combating illegal immigration, which under the Harris-Biden administration has become a massive foreign invasion, is key to his popularity and success.
It may also cement his legacy.
Thankfully, for the first time in decades, there is a plan to reverse the damage, and not just slow the bleeding. The plan centers around a massive and unprecedented deportation effort.
Trump and his team have been increasingly adamant about their plans to enact the largest mass deportation of illegal foreigners in American history, because as Trump stated, “we have no choice.”
He is absolutely correct, and they must move swiftly to do it.
As Trump stated at his Madison Square Garden rally:
The United States is now an occupied country, but it will soon be an occupied country no longer. Not gonna be happening? Not gonna be happening. November 5th, 2024, nine days from now, will be Liberation Day in America. It’s going to be Liberation Day.
On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history. Gotta get the criminals out. I will rescue every city and town that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail, then kick them the hell out of our country as fast as possible. And to expedite removals of Tren de Aragua and other savage gangs like MS-13, which is equally vicious, I will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
Think of that. That’s how far back. That’s when they had law and order. They had some tough ones. Think of it. The Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
You hear that, Mr. Speaker? Get ready! To target and dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American soil. And there are lots of them. We don’t have the same country anymore. You know that.
And you know, when you look at the polls and they say about the economy and they have all these different things. The worst nightmare that we’re facing is what they’ve done to us on our borders.
The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 passed by Congress allows the president to authorize the arrest, relocation, or deportation of any male over the age of 14 who came from a foreign, enemy country, sidestepping onerous legal hurdles.
It has only been used three times in U.S. history, each of those during war. This time Trump intends to label foreign criminal gangs and drug cartels as the enemy.
Stephen Miller, Trump’s top immigration advisor Stephen and a close Trump confidant, told The New York Times last year that Trump would also invoke the Insurrection Act, an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act that restricts using armed forces domestically as law enforcement.
This law was last used by President, George H.W. Bush to quell looting in the U.S. Virgin Islands after a major storm in 1989 and during massive race riots in Los Angeles in 1992.
Polls show most Americans favor such an approach.
And unlike during Trump’s first term, Democrats are now fully on defense on this issue, having created an illegal alien crisis.
As Semafor notes:
Politically, Trump may have a greater mandate to pursue immigration crackdowns than in his first term. Then, Democrats were confident opposing policies like child separation as human-rights abuses, defending asylum seekers from attacks, and deriding efforts to build a border wall as folly. This time, both the Biden administration and Harris are emphasizing more hawkish policies as polls show voters have shifted their priorities in the same direction.
However, any mass deportation must still be well thought out and smoothly executed. It must also be accompanied by a solid political and public relations effort. Already, the Democrat-allied mass media is focusing on his plans to discredit it and sabotage it.
Among the leftist talking points are the substantial cost, logistical hurdles, legality and morality, including family separations. How the president intends to use the military is another focal point. The left will continue hammering these points incessantly after Trump is hopefully elected.
Unlike Trump’s first term, this time around he will have a seasoned team able to more effectively carry out his policies.
Key among them is Tom Homan, the former Border Patrol Agent who led immigration enforcement as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement—the agency known as “ICE”—during the first Trump administration.
Speaking at the Republican National Convention, Homan made a pledge: “I got a message to the millions of illegal aliens that Joe Biden released in our country. You better start packing now.”
And, like Trump, he is only doubling down on this.
As CBS News reported, Homan told the outlet:
I hear a lot of people say, you know, the talk of a mass deportation is racist. It’s– it’s– it’s threatening to immigrant community. It’s not threatening to the immigrant community. It should be threatening to the illegal immigrant community. But on the heels of [a] historic illegal immigration crisis. That has to be done.
But unlike the scary scenarios painted by the media, harkening back to Japanese internment camps of World War Two, his plan is targeted and systematic.
When asked by CBS’ Cecilia Vega what the largest deportation in American history would look like to him, Homan replied:
Well, lemme tell you what it’s not going to be first. It’s not gonna be– a mass sweep of neighborhoods. It’s not gonna be building concentration camps. I’ve read it all. It’s ridiculous.
He added:
They’ll be targeted arrests. We’ll know who we’re going to arrest, where we’re most likely to find ’em based on numerous…investigative processes.
And he has priorities, noting: “If I’m in charge of this, my priorities are public safety threats and national security threats first.”
After an intense focus on deporting migrants who have committed crimes, the broad plan afterwards is intended to make it so difficult for illegal aliens to live in the U.S. that they, as Mitt Romney once put it, self-deport.
Still, the plan will require substantial resources and will include nationwide sweeps—though according to Homan, these will be focused more on work sites and employers of illegals than on residential areas.
This was the approach I personally witnessed growing up in Southern California in the 1970s and that Harris-Biden effectively ceased doing.
Homan also notes that work-site enforcement operations [are] “where we find a lot of trafficking cases you know, women and children who are forced into forced labor to pay off their smuggling fees.”
Once they are rounded up and detained, Miller has stated that deportees would be removed from the country in a massive military air operation:
So you grab illegal immigrants and then you move them to the staging ground and that’s where the planes are waiting for federal law enforcement to then move those illegals home. You deputize the National Guard to carry out immigration enforcement.
Semafor notes that:
In addition to its own set of legal complications, identifying and removing undocumented immigrants would require a major boost in funding and personnel, plus cooperation from state, local, and foreign governments. None of those are going to be easy to achieve on their own.
The “‘greatest mass deportation program in history’ is definitely going to be challenged in court,” Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which is aligned with Trump on this issue, told Semafor.
“There’s no question about it. But at the end of the day, people who have no right to be here have no right to be here.”
After ramping up the removal of illegal alien criminals, Trump’s plan would continue by revoking or not renewing parole grants. Trump has also vowed to “end all sanctuary cities” if elected president again.
This will be huge.
As Krikorian told Semafor, “cities that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities are another obstacle to deportation. Trump deported fewer people than President Obama in part due to widespread local non-cooperation.”
Meanwhile, echoing Miller, Doris Meissner, a senior fellow and director at the Migration Policy Institute, told Semafor that Trump will need to expand beyond just using ICE and DHS, employing other federal agencies, local law enforcement, the National Guard, and likely the military to expel illegals.
How these federal agencies, the military and National Guard may be used in this effort, and other important details, will be discussed in my next piece. Stay tuned.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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1oo% With Paul Crespo, but this needs to start right after the Election — We don’t have the time to wait for an Inauguration in January 2025
Before they leave, give them a bill. That was our tax money fraudly given to them. It can’t come soon enough. Everybody responsible for the crime and trafficking need to be put in prison for treason, slave trading and child abuse.
If the Democrat-allied mass media begin their reign of lie and deception against this then they should be held accountable for TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, to suborn any action that has been undertaken to protect the UNITED STATES falls within those guidelines as TREASON, stop their actions by putting them on trial for TREASON and under the laws of the United States can bear the punishment of DEATH or life in Prison but I think DEATH would be an appropriate punishment in this case!