Friday, November 22, 2024

Op-ed: Sending Them Home

For instance, border czar-designate Tom Homan said at the Republican convention, “I’ve got a message to the millions of illegal aliens that Joe Biden’s released into our country in violation of federal law: You better start packing now.” It was not just an applause line; it was an effort to limit the amount of force that deportation efforts will require.

So why don’t we have one? by Michael Lind News section icon Unrestricted Immigration Is a Real Problem Pretending it’s not happening will only make the consequences worse by Steven Camarota News section icon Our Open Border Policy Is Not an Accident There’s a new strategy in town: If American voters don’t like what you are offering, import better voters.

And because most voters naturally consider that insane, we now see broad public support, including among first-generation migrants, for “mass deportation” and an electoral mandate for what the president-elect has promised will be the “largest deportation effort in American history.” Restoring credibility after decades of deceit will take time, cost money, get tied up in courts, and inevitably involve an unfortunate measure of human suffering, the images of which will be ruthlessly exploited for political purposes by the media and the interests they serve.

We’re not gonna be intimidated.” Although the incoming administration can begin by tackling the problem in red states, a new Trump deportation push will also have to include stepped-up efforts against sanctuary policies.

Share →︎ X Facebook Email Print Link Copied link Even after immigration agents are freed from such strictures, a significant challenge will be where to detain the deportable aliens during the time it will take to secure travel documents from their home countries.

JB Pritzker of Illinois, who bombastically declared, “You come for my people, you come through me.” Tom Homan, Trump’s nominee to lead the deportation effort, was not impressed, replying that the incoming administration will have “no problem going through him … If any governor wants to stand in the way, go ahead and do it.

The bottom line is that a large-scale program to make illegal aliens leave doesn’t require soldiers breaking down doors, cattle cars, or concentration camps.

So rather than randomly knocking on doors looking for illegal aliens, ICE’s next priority will be the more than 1.3 million people with “unexecuted orders of removal”—people who had their day in court, lost, were ordered deported, and instead just stayed. 

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/mass-deportation-criminal-aliens

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