ANALYSIS – As tens of thousands of undocumented migrants flood into the country weekly, former President Donald Trump is vowing to deport many of them.
While other GOP presidential candidates have talked tough on the border, only Trump has promised to go this far.
There should always be exceptions, but Trump believes most who have illegally crossed the border under Biden must go.
Trump's comments come as the numbers of undocumented immigrants are again skyrocketing at the border. In the past five days alone, there have reportedly been over 45,000 migrant encounters both at the ports of entry and between them, including multiple days of over 8,000 undocumented immigrant encounters.
There were an unprecedented 230,000 migrant encounters in August, though the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) have not provided official figures yet.
While accusing Biden of causing a “nation-wrecking catastrophe on our southern border,” during a speech in Dubuque, Iowa, Wednesday evening, Trump promised that, if elected, he would carry out “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”
“Following the Eisenhower Model, we will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” Trump said, as reported by Fox News.
Trump also said he would “immediately” invoke a federal law granting the president unilateral power to detain and deport undocumented immigrants in the United States who are over 14 years old.
As NBC News reported, the law says a president may order noncitizens “to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies” when he or she “makes public proclamation” than an “invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation.”
Trump said he would use the Act to target suspected gang members, drug dealers and cartel members.
“I'll…invoke immediately the Alien Enemies Act to remove all known or suspected gang members…the drug dealers, the cartel members from the United States, ending the scourge of illegal alien gang violence once and for all,” Trump vowed.
Trump added: “Under my leadership, we had the most secure border in U.S. history. Now, we have the worst border in the history of the world.”
Numerous other Biden policies have drawn the ire of border hawks.
Trump addressed that in Iowa saying that if elected to a second term he would begin by “immediately” terminating “every open borders policy of the Biden administration.”
At the top of his list, Trump promised to reinstate and “expand” the “travel ban” that he implemented during his first term.
The ban, which Joe Biden ended on his first day in office, barred most individuals from seven countries with high terrorism indices from entering the United States.
But he didn't stop there, Trump shockingly added that he would expand his travel ban to “deny entry to all communists and Marxists to the United States.”
“Those who join our country must love our country – and we are going to keep foreign Christian-hating communists, Marxists and socialists the hell out of America,” Trump declared.
The former president also said he plans to “shift massive portions of federal law enforcement to immigration enforcement,” including some of the FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
“I will make clear that we must use any and all resources needed to stop the invasion – including moving thousands of troops currently stationed overseas to our own southern border,” Trump said, emphasizing that “before we defend the borders of foreign countries, we must secure the border of our country.”
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