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Trump calls for mass detention camps and rounding up millions of Latinos, saying it will be larger than a 1950s military operation called “Operation Wetback”
7:38 AM · Apr 4, 2024
“We’re going to have the largest deportation effort in history, larger than Dwight Eisenhower. Eisenhower was very big as a deporter as you know, people don’t know that about him. And he as tough. And we’re gonna have it because…”
Also, mass detention camps, because you can’t just randomly deport people without probable cause and a judicial proceeding. You have to go through the courts. All these people he plans to “round up” will have to be held somewhere - and he has some dark plans for that.
According to his own plans as part of “Agenda 47” Trump says that he will use the Military to do a mass-round up of undocumented migrants. Not just those who have committed crime, his goal is to gather all of them. Even those who have been here for decades and have U.S. born children and grand-children. He would end “Birth-Right Citizenship for children. [Whom he calls “Anchor Babies” — which I guess would also include Ivanka, Don Jr, Eric and Baronn.] There’s no telling how many U.S. Citizens will be wrongly deported. He would send the military to the border — and I suspect — authorize them to use lethal force to repel migrants. [Like the deadly razorwire in Texas.]
With Project 2025 he would establish America as a Christian Theocracy. He would make being LGBTQ a crime. He would make sharing or even writing LGBTQ books a crime as “pornography” turning teachers and libraries into “sex offenders.” He would ban “Gender Affirming Care.” He would establish a nationwide abortion ban, ban IVF, IUD’s, contraception, surrogacy, Mifeprestine and Plan B. He would force women to report their menstruation cycles to the government so they would be able to tell if they’ve had a secret chemical abortion. He would prosecute doctors for saving the life of a pregnant woman, but not also saving the life of her fetus, even if if was non-viable or already dead. He would massively overhaul education, require prayer in school, ban the teaching of accurate African-American history, ban symbols of ‘Gay Pride”, and provide incentives for teachers to carry guns in the classroom - because, sure, that’s another thing they can juggle in their “ample free time.”
He would crack down on CRT, DEI and Affirmative Action arguing that it is truly “White people” who are being systematically discriminated against whenever anyone tries to provide aid, benefits, loans or support for anyone who isn’t white. He would reverse efforts at Criminal Justice and Cash Bail Reform, re-installing failed and bigoted “Stop and Frisk”, “Three Strikes” and “Tough on Crime” policies such as implementing the death penalty for drug dealing and smuggling [especially Fentanyl]. He would use the military “crack skulls” and “shoot” peaceful protests. We know this because he tried to do it before.
He would gut the federal civil service removing long-term experienced personnel who have gained subject matter expertise and learned how to abide by the Constitutionand the Law replacing them with his own obedient crazed cronies who will implement each and every ridiculous and fascist idea he comes up with, without question or complaint. [And what could possibly go wrong with that idea in the midst of occasional train derailments, bridge collapses, random airplane disasters and international pandemics? Let’s have a bunch of incompetent partisan amateurs in charge. Again, this is what he did before.]
He would weaponize the DOJ, FBI, and IRS to go after his political opponents arresting, charging and jailing them of whatever trumped-up bullshit charges he can imagine.
So, that’s all kinda bad.
But let’s just face the first problem first: Operation Wetback 2.0.
During Operation Wetback, tens of thousands of immigrants were shoved into buses, boats and planes and sent to often-unfamiliar parts of Mexico, where they struggled to rebuild their lives. In Chicago, three planes a week were filled with immigrants and flown to Mexico. In Texas, 25 percent of all of the immigrants deported were crammed onto boats later compared to slave ships, while others died of sunstroke, disease and other causes while in custody.
It’s not clear how many American citizens were swept up in Operation Wetback, but the United States later claimed that 1.3 million people total were deported. However, some historians dispute that claim. Though hundreds of thousands of people were ensnared, says historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez, the number of deportees was drastically lower than the United States reported—likely closer to 300,000. Due to immigrants who were caught, deported, and captured again after re-emigrating, it’s impossible to estimate the total number of people deported under the program.
Mass deportations of Mexican immigrants from the U.S. date to the Great Depression, when the federal government began a wave of deportations rather than include Mexican-born workers in New Deal welfare programs. According to historian Francisco Balderrama, the U.S. deported over 1 million Mexican nationals, 60 percent of whom were U.S. citizens of Mexican descent, during the 1930s. Balderrama toldFresh Air’s Terry Gross that the program was referred to as “repatriation” to give it the sense of being voluntary. In reality, though, it was anything but.
Despite a widespread belief among native-born Americans that Mexicans came to the United States to steal jobs from American workers, many were invited to the country to work in its fields. In 1942, the U.S. Mexican Farm Labor Program, also known as Operation Bracero after the Spanish term for “manual laborer,” began. The program funneled Mexicans into the United States on a legal, temporary basis in exchange for guaranteed wages and humane treatment—an attempt by the Mexican government to stave off the discrimination faced by earlier immigrants.
However, not all employers wanted to follow the guidelines or pay the thirty-cent-an-hour guaranteed wage (about $4.51 in modern dollars). Nor did the Mexican government want Mexicans to work in Texas, which continued its discrimination against Mexican people, and the state was excluded from the program between 1942 and 1947. That’s where “wetbacks” came in. The racial epithet was used to describe Mexicans who illegally entered Texas by crossing the Rio Grande River. The government turned a blind eye to Texans’ employment of these undocumented immigrants, even after hiring undocumented workers was declared illegal.
That is the racist shit he’s offering to bring back yet again. He also claims that he will “ban welfare for Illegal Aliens” when they honestly don’t even get Welfare.
Crooked Joe Biden is running a non-stop conveyor belt importing illegal aliens from all over the world into our country and the Biden Department of Homeland Security is abusing its so-called parole authority to give them more governmental benefits than many law-abiding citizens, including our Vets. Our Vets are being taken advantage of. Our citizens are being taken advantage of. It's very unfair. And it's not going to stand.
Under this horrendous abuse of power, millions of illegals will be eligible for billions and billions of dollars in welfare benefits courtesy of you the American taxpayer. So not only is Crooked Joe surrendering your borders and your sovereignty, he is stealing your hard-earned money to redistribute it to people who have no business being in our country. They should be in their country. This is not sustainable by anybody, certainly not sustainable by us.
This is how he intends to take on the Cartels.
TRUMP ACTION PLAN TO DESTROY THE DRUG CARTELS:
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Restore all Trump border policies and fully secure border
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Deploy all necessary military assets, including the U.S. Navy, to impose a full naval embargo on the cartels, to ensure they cannot use our region’s waters to traffic illicit drugs to the U.S.
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Order the Department of Defense to make appropriate use of special forces, cyber warfare, and other covert and overt actions to inflict maximum damage on cartel leadership, infrastructure, and operations
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Designate the major drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations
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Cut off the cartels’ access to the global financial system
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Get full cooperation of neighboring governments to dismantle the cartels, or else fully expose the bribes and corruption that protect these criminal networks
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Ask Congress to ensure drug smugglers and traffickers can receive the Death Penalty
Also, the Death Penalty for Human Traffickers.
“I will urge Congress to ensure that anyone caught trafficking children across our border receives the death penalty immediately,” President Trump said.
As President, Donald J. Trump took historic action to combat human trafficking and will reinstate his successful policies once he returns to the White House.
“Under my leadership, we did more than any administration in history to combat human trafficking and to end modern day slavery,” President Trump said. “In one of my first acts in office, I signed an executive order targeting transnational criminal organizations that traffic and exploit innocent people. I signed the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act, authorizing $430 million to fight sex and labor trafficking.”
So that’s going to be a lot of executed people. Probably, without a trial. [Who needs the paperwork, amirite?] Having talked to a lot of MAGAs, their solution to every problem seems to be the “Death Penalty” even though it really doesn’t do much to decrease crime and that system has caught up hundreds of innocent people.
What was that about “bloodbath” he keeps talking about?
Let’s be clear here - under Trump - the border was “not secure.”
Border Patrol Total Enforcement Actions 2017-2021
FY17 - 526,901
FY18 - 683,178
FY19 - 1,148,024
FY20 - 646,822
That’s not “zero” - that’s not “no action.” That’s a lot. During his entire time in Office Trump was screaming about an “Invasion” at the border and “Migrant Caravans.” At no point was it “calm and normal.”
Here’s another thing, Eisenhower didn’t deport the most people, up until 2016, President Obama did.
Based on statements so far, Trump's plan to remove the undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes is similar to what President Obama declared in 2014. Here's a look at some of the numbers
President Barack Obama has often been referred to by immigration groups as the "Deporter in Chief."
Between 2009 and 2015 his administration has removed more than 2.5 million people through immigration orders, which doesn’t include the number of people who "self-deported" or were turned away and/or returned to their home country at the border by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
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President Obama directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to focus on criminals, not families, during his November 2014 executive action on immigration.
According to their website, "ICE has continued to increase its focus on identifying, arresting, and removing convicted criminals in prisons and jails, and also at-large arrests in the interior."
In fiscal year 2015, 91 percent of people removed from inside the U.S. were previously convicted of a crime.
Obama deported criminals. It’s arguable that that has come back to bite us as those criminals are now the ones terrorizing people in El Salvador and Guatemala.
During his time, when he had a chance, Trump only accomplished a portion of that may deportations.
Increased immigration enforcement was a stated policy goal of the Trump administration. Over the course of four years, myriad policy changes ranging from less-noted technical adjustments to over 400 executive actions on immigration changed the way, among other things, of how interior enforcement was conducted. What was the effect on immigrants living in the United States without authorization? The statistics available to date suggest that interior arrests and deportations did ramp up, but fell far short of returning to the levels at the end of the George W. Bush administration and early Obama years. Though comparatively modest in its enforcement statistics, the Trump-era approach to immigration enforcement was characterized by less focus on immigrants with criminal histories and increased use of detention.
So Trump departed few people than Obama, and most of them were not criminals. As much shit as he talks about “migrant crime” he actually didn’t focus on that when he could.
Also, his policy of separating children from their parents at the border was a Human Rights Disaster.
This policy permanently traumatized children.
So Trump is promising to do this again, only worse.
We hear often that the border under Biden is “out of control” but the fact is the reality is that Biden has actually blocked more people from entering the country than were deported by Eisenhower, Bush, Biden or Trump.
Nationwide data up to November 2023 shows that immigration officials have encountered migrants 8.1 million times under Biden. But the data represents events, not people.
About 2.3 million people have been released into the U.S. under Biden’s administration, Department of Homeland Security data shows. Most of them are families, according to The Washington Post. About 356,000 children who crossed the border alone were also let in.
If about 2.3 million were released into the nation - pending their deportation and asylum hearings - then approximately 5.8 million times people have NOT been allowed into the country as they were encountered at the border. Many of those are reportedly repeat customers because if you are blocked or expelled under Title 42 you were able to try again later - but still - that’s much more than any other previous President. But how many individuals has that been?
But immigration officials also turn people away through border "returns" and "expulsions." Returns happen when officials dispatch people to their home countries without legal penalties and without formal removal proceedings. Up through mid-May 2023, officials also expelled people under Title 42, a public health policy; this began under the Trump administration as a way to mitigate COVID-19’s spread.
The Biden administration recorded about 2.5 million Title 42 expulsions through May 2023.
There have been more than 3.6 million removals, returns and expulsions from February 2021, Biden’s first month in office, to September 2023, based on Department of Homeland Security estimates.
This data also represents events, not people. So, the same person can be expelled multiple times and each time would count as a separate expulsion.
So again, that’s over 6 million events, admitting that it involves the same people over and over again. Even if it is only half that number of individuals, that’s still a greater amount of people than those who were deported by Obama over 8 years in just half that amount of time.
The only people who’ve been allowed to enter and wait for their asylum and deportation hearings have been families and single children. Yes, that’s been a lot of people. 2.3 Million. But anyone with a criminal record, outstanding warrant, ping on the terror watchlist or even single adults have been kept out. By the millions.
There are certainly more people showing up at the Border than during either Trump or Obama’s time - but that isn’t something that President Biden can control. He’s not the President of El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti or Venezuela.
Many of them are fleeing inflation in those counties and coming to the US because we have that problem largely under control. Many of them are coming in order to save their own lives from violence at home. And many are taking the bet that our overwhelmed system will allow them to stay for years before their asylum claims are processed.
For most migrants, the United States still represents the land of opportunity. Many come seeking work, and they are going to do whatever it takes to work, even if that means filing a weak asylum claim, several lawyers said.
To qualify for asylum, applicants must convince a judge that returning to their home country would result in harm or death on the basis of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group.
Ms. Ortiz, 40, said she intended to apply for asylum based on violence in Colombia. Her chances of winning are slim, because violence alone typically does not meet the standard for persecution. Even so, she will be shielded from deportation while her claim is pending and will qualify for a work permit.
Underfunded immigration courts that adjudicate claims are strained by the swelling caseload, so applications languish for years, and all the while, migrants are building lives in the United States.
If your argument is that Biden should be protecting the nation from criminals and terrorist coming in at the border he’s been doing more and better than any other President in History. He’s already implemented the “Largest Expulsion and Deportation Project” ever.
This was the situation before Biden, it’s been this way for years. Could it be better? Possibly, but that would take more resources. The Bipartisan Senate Border Deal that Biden negotiated would have greatly increased border patrol to capture more “got aways” and deportation and asylum judges in order to bring the hearing backlog down from years, to months or weeks. There are a lot of things that can be done to improve immigration, but that was a reasonable first step — and then Trump himself killed that plan, now didn’t he?
Going through the immigration court system to gain asylum is a legitimate legal process that is established under International Law. People who do this are not “Illegals” who’ve committed a crime - they have no criminal record or else they wouldn’t have been allowed to go through deportation proceedings in the first place. 83% of those who are pending deportation procedures are going to their hearings, 96% if they have legal representation. [I would bet that’s higher than the percentage of us who show up for traffic court] Most of these people want to stay using the legal means to do so, and right now going to court is exactly that. They don’t deserve to be rounded up by the Military and shoved into a detention camp. They don’t deserve to be fear-mongered, hounded and harassed, they don’t deserve to be demonized for simply trying to find a better life for themselves.
They don’t deserve to be called “Vermin” or “Animals.”
Trump makes a lot of empty promises, he makes a lot of empty threats, he talks a lot of shit. What he is promising to do here would be an International Crime Against Humanity. It could get a lot of people - innocent people - killed.
We can’t afford to take the chance that he’s only bluffing and blustering to generate votes. We have to assume he means this shit.
And he has to be stopped.
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During his time Trump deported thousands of parents of U.S. Citizen children.
In 2019, ICE deported 27,980 people with U.S.-born children. While the government does not track whether U.S.-citizen children stay in the United States or leave with a deported parent, both scenarios occur and pose challenges.
As noted in the comments there were also thousands of foreign born orphans who had been adopted and (supposedly) granted U.S. citizenship who faced deportation under the Trump administration.
[Mauricio] Cappelli enjoyed a typical suburban upbringing in the Midwest. He was a Cub Scout, played little league baseball, and enjoyed the outdoors. He was the only adopted sibling of the three Cappelli children, but, like them, he was an American. Or so everyone thought. He had a social security card and a document known as a “certification of birth facts” issued by the state of Wisconsin.
How Cappelli, now 38, ended up detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a story only made possible within a byzantine immigration system that, until the new millennium, did not grant automatic citizenship to foreign-born children adopted by U.S. citizens. The Child Citizenship Act, passed by Congress in 2000, granted automatic citizenship to 140,000 child adoptees, according to the bill’s sponsors, but excluded those age 18 and up. The exemption — a political compromise to get wary Republican members on board — left out between 25,000 and 49,000 adult adoptees across the United States, according to the Adoptee Rights Campaign.
