What Donald Trump’s Vow to Deport Up to 3 Million Immigrants Would Mean

Chyno.01 · 11-15-2016, 08:02 AM

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WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump’s promise to deport two million to three million immigrants who have committed crimes suggested that he would dramatically step up removals of both people in the United States illegally and those with legal status. If carried out, the plan potentially would require raids by a vastly larger federal immigration force to hunt down these immigrants and send them out of the country.

Addressing the issue in an interview broadcast Sunday on the CBS program “60 Minutes,” Mr. Trump adopted a softer tone on immigrants than he did during his campaign, when he called many of them rapists and criminals. He instead referred to them as “terrific people,” saying they would be dealt with only after the border had been secured and criminals deported.

But by placing the number of people he aims to turn out of the country as high as three million, Mr. Trump raised questions about which immigrants he planned to target for deportation and how he could achieve removals at that scale.

“If he wants to deport two to three million people, he’s got to rely on tactics that will divide communities and create fear throughout the country,” said Kevin Appleby, the senior director of international migration policy at the Center for Migration Studies of New York. “He would have to conduct a sweep, or raids or tactics such as those, to reach the numbers he wants to reach. It would create a police state, in which they would have to be aggressively looking for people.”

The details are crucial to understanding the approach of a president-elect who centered his campaign on a promise to build a border wall and deport lawbreakers. On Monday, President Obama said he would urge Mr. Trump to consider leaving in place his executive actions that have shielded from deportation immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children.
Asked on “60 Minutes” whether he would seek to deport “millions and millions of undocumented immigrants,” Mr. Trump said his priority would be to remove “people that are criminal and have criminal records.”

“What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records — gang members, drug dealers, we have a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million. We are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate,” Mr. Trump said. “But we’re getting them out of our country, they’re here illegally.”

The Obama administration has estimated that 1.9 million “removable criminal aliens” are in the United States. That number includes people who hold green cards for legal permanent residency and those who have temporary visas. It also includes people who have been convicted of nonviolent crimes such as theft, not just those found guilty of felonies or gang-related violence.

“They certainly have that many to start,” said Jessica M. Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that supports reduced immigration.

But even if Mr. Trump’s numbers are correct — and many immigration activists dispute them — it is not clear Mr. Trump could carry out those deportations quickly without violating due process.

In many cases, convicts would have to go through immigration courts before they could be deported. Those courts are overwhelmed with huge backlogs, so obtaining deportation orders from judges can take many months — if not many years. Thousands of immigrants are serving jail sentences that under current law cannot be curtailed. According to official figures, as of June only about 183,000 immigrants had been convicted of crimes and also had deportation orders so they could be detained and removed quickly.

Targeting Criminals

Mr. Trump’s approach would in some ways be a continuation of policies Mr. Obama has pursued to focus immigration enforcement on convicted criminals.

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So NY Times believes it will not be us DREAMERS who he considered criminals but rather what DHS has identified as criminal aliens.

More proof to show you that Trump will legalize us.

We ARE TERRIFiC PEOPlE

carnivore · 11-15-2016, 09:00 AM

Been saying this all along.

Trump will legalize us.

We will march to TRUMP tower to personally thank him.

#dreamersInNyc

JJ Glo · 11-15-2016, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by carnivore

Been saying this all along.

Trump will legalize us.

We will march to TRUMP tower to personally thank him.

#dreamersInNyc

I've been wanting to go to NY for a while now. Make it happen Trump!

2MoreYears · 11-15-2016, 05:54 PM

Trump is a pathological liar. I don't believe anything he says.

Chyno.01 · 11-15-2016, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by 2MoreYears

Trump is a pathological liar. I don't believe anything he says.

We already know how you feel, no reason to spam it all over. We respect your opinion and value it as well.

Thank you.

Demise · 11-15-2016, 06:38 PM

Good thing that Chyno volunteered to be #1.

Any other 1,999,999 - 2,999,999 volunteers?

Chyno.01 · 11-15-2016, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Demise

Good thing that Chyno volunteered to be #1.

Any other 1,999,999 - 2,999,999 volunteers?

All those volunteers are already defined in the DHS report from 2013, no reason for me to be there.

2MoreYears · 11-15-2016, 06:40 PM

Hahakahaja that's a good one.

Chyno.01 · 11-15-2016, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by 2MoreYears

Hahakahaja that's a good one.

I responded with a better come back called FACTS.

2MoreYears · 11-15-2016, 06:42 PM

5 sources plz.

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