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Trump and allies plotting militarized mass deportations, detention camps
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:21 am
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:21 am
we can only hope
Trump and allies plotting militarized mass deportations, detention camps
Faced with a surge of migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2018 and 2019, Donald Trump’s White House discussed ways to more aggressively deploy the resources and the might of the U.S. military.
Aides and officials spoke privately about detaining migrants on military bases and flying them out of the country on military planes — ideas that the Pentagon headed off. Throughout his presidency, Trump himself would frequently demand to send troops to the border and catch people crossing.
“He was obsessed with having the military involved,” said a former senior administration official, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private discussions.
That approach and unfinished business have taken on renewed significance and urgency as the country confronts another migrant crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border, and as Trump closes in on the Republican presidential nomination. The former president is making immigration a core campaign theme, promoting a proposal for an unprecedented deportation effort if he is returned to power.
Trump pledges that as president he would immediately launch “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” As a model, he points to an Eisenhower-era program known as “Operation Wetback,” using a derogatory slur for Mexican migrants. The operation used military tactics to round up and remove migrant workers, sometimes transporting them in dangerous conditions that led to some deaths. Former administration officials and policy experts said staging an even larger operation today would face a bottleneck in detention space — a problem that Trump adviser Stephen Miller and other allies have proposed addressing by building mass deportation camps.
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Trump and allies plotting militarized mass deportations, detention camps
Faced with a surge of migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2018 and 2019, Donald Trump’s White House discussed ways to more aggressively deploy the resources and the might of the U.S. military.
Aides and officials spoke privately about detaining migrants on military bases and flying them out of the country on military planes — ideas that the Pentagon headed off. Throughout his presidency, Trump himself would frequently demand to send troops to the border and catch people crossing.
“He was obsessed with having the military involved,” said a former senior administration official, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private discussions.
That approach and unfinished business have taken on renewed significance and urgency as the country confronts another migrant crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border, and as Trump closes in on the Republican presidential nomination. The former president is making immigration a core campaign theme, promoting a proposal for an unprecedented deportation effort if he is returned to power.
Trump pledges that as president he would immediately launch “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” As a model, he points to an Eisenhower-era program known as “Operation Wetback,” using a derogatory slur for Mexican migrants. The operation used military tactics to round up and remove migrant workers, sometimes transporting them in dangerous conditions that led to some deaths. Former administration officials and policy experts said staging an even larger operation today would face a bottleneck in detention space — a problem that Trump adviser Stephen Miller and other allies have proposed addressing by building mass deportation camps.
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Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:27 am to djmed
As if I needed any more incentive to vote for him.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:28 am to udtiger
Good. I just pray he gets the chance.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:29 am to djmed
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“He was obsessed with having the military involved,” said a former senior administration official, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private discussions.
every time
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:29 am to djmed
Wait, he wants to use our military to secure our border peacefully rather than send them to Jordan to get killed by weapons carried on drones? The horror.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:29 am to TDTOM
all hot single women should get a waiver
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:30 am to djmed
The MSM couldn't wait to say OPERATION WETBACK> Also I am sure the Russians want the wetbacks out so Trump is an agent of Putin's.
It is absurd at this stage. And I am glad Trump will do this-call me a racist.
It is absurd at this stage. And I am glad Trump will do this-call me a racist.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:30 am to djmed
They can stop trying to sell me on him. He already has my vote.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:30 am to djmed
If they do that, they need to drop them off at about 30,000 feet, otherwise they will be right back.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:31 am to djmed
The pearl clutchers will lose their ever-loving minds over this, but if the bastards had done their job to begin with, we wouldn't have to resort to these measures. They only have themselves to blame.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:31 am to djmed
The lengths they will go to in order to twist people's heads and get them to vote against Trump is just laughable at this point.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:33 am to djmed
Trump promised mass deportations the first time. Didn't happen. He also promised to look at birthright citizenship, build a wall, have Mexico pay for it, heavily tax remittances back to Mexico and Central America, and a host of other things he didn't even bother to do. What makes you think he will do any of this the second time?
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:33 am to djmed
A sovereign nation enforcing the rule of law, and controlling who gets to come into the country and stay or not?
Oh, perish the thought. How insensitive and mean.
Oh, perish the thought. How insensitive and mean.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:36 am to djmed
Then Stephen Miller and Trump can pay for these new deportation camps out of their own pockets.
Until the US puts the screws to Nicaragua. Ecuador and to a lesser extent Columbia, you still have a problem. Our border as problematic as it is, is the wrong focus. Once they get into Mexico they inevitably will show up along the Rio Grand. Stopping the migrant chain closer to the source is what is needed.
Mexicans are not the problem it's Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador (yes, Bukele is making some money off this) and the others flying in like the Chinese and the Middle Easterners and Russians and sub Saharan Africans
Until the US puts the screws to Nicaragua. Ecuador and to a lesser extent Columbia, you still have a problem. Our border as problematic as it is, is the wrong focus. Once they get into Mexico they inevitably will show up along the Rio Grand. Stopping the migrant chain closer to the source is what is needed.
Mexicans are not the problem it's Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador (yes, Bukele is making some money off this) and the others flying in like the Chinese and the Middle Easterners and Russians and sub Saharan Africans
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:39 am to Mike da Tigah
the camps are kind as a holding place to process them getting out. it is either them or us in camps. the democrats think they get top bunk... or a special apartment with barrels of their infected crickets to eat by their 6X7 herb garden---- making things for Temu in America to sell.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:39 am to djmed
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Trump and allies plotting militarized mass deportations
Let's hold a few of the lefties on treason charges as well.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:40 am to ronricks
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What makes you think he will do any of this the second time?
Because he did all of those things the first time.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:41 am to jrodLSUke
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Because he did all of those things the first time
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:44 am to KiwiHead
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Mexicans are not the problem
Wrong.
MEXICO is indeed the problem.
We should bully them into securing the border from THEIR side.
None of these invaders make it from ANYWHERE unless Mexico allows it.
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