Trump’s Immigration Offers an Alternative to Family Separation: Entire Family Deportation

One of the most horrible and inhumane policies implemented by Donald TrumpThe first administration of was Separation of immigrant families—a brutal program perpetrated irreparable harm made even worse by the Trump White House refuse to pay for mental health services for those it scars. As of January 2024, years after the policy was suspended due to backlash, some children had Not yet was reunited with his parents.

Asked twice during the vice presidential debate whether he and Trump would break up families in a second term, J.D. Vance chose not to respond. Meanwhile Trump has protect separation of families, arguing that it is an effective deterrent.

But Tom Homan, who served as Trump’s acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement from January 2017 to June 2018—and whom Trump has speak will join the second administration – apparently has another idea: deport the whole family. Perhaps including those with citizens among them.

Asked in an interview with 60 minutes Homan asked reporters if there was a way to “carry out the mass deportations” Trump has pledged to do, “without separating families.” Cecilia Vega, “Of course I do. Families can be deported together.” Discussing a theory in which an undocumented grandmother was found in a house that the government was targeting for removal, he said he would let “a judge decide” whether she was should be deported or not. He added: “If I’m in charge of this, my first priority is public safety threats and national security threats.”

Trump does swear to “carry out the largest domestic deportation campaign in American History,” starting on “day one.” At a conference earlier this year, Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s family separation program, speak of the plan: “You apprehend illegal immigrants and then transport them to a staging location and that’s where the planes are waiting for federal law enforcement to transport those illegals home . You authorize the National Guard to carry out immigration enforcement.” (On Sunday, Miller declare“America is for Americans and Americans only,” reads one disturbing line history equivalence.)

Homan is not the only one to suggest that the Trump administration could deport American citizens. Last week, it was the former president declare that prosecutor Jack Smith should be expelled from the country, suggesting that (1) Trump believes that taking legal action against him is grounds for removal and (2) that he can deport US citizens.

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