#Mass deportation

[t-grey-writing]

Hey! Even if we manage to lessen ICE presence, continue doing this to cops! Homeless people don’t deserve the shit they get from authority figures (or society) so protect and help them where you can

[gwydionmisha]

US agents raid New Jersey worksite as Trump escalates immigration crackdown

22 Democratic-led states sue over Trump's birthright citizenship order

I legitimately can't figure out how the president can repeal the 14th Amendment of the constitution with a stroke of the pen instead of following the repeal process from the Constitution.

I could have sworn they passed the 21st Amendment to repeal the 18th Amendment, for example.

Apparently a federal judge agrees:

[saywhat-politics]

President-elect Donald Trump drew cheers from the crowd at AmericaFest in downtown Phoenix on Sunday when he spoke about a border crackdown, including a "historic slate of executive orders" that will surpass the scope of mass deportation efforts in the 1950s.

He pledged to seal the border and remove criminal elements who he says are smuggling drugs, fostering gang violence and endangering communities across the country.

"We will stop illegal immigration once and for all," Trump told the enthusiastic standing-room-only crowd gathered at the Phoenix Convention Center on Sunday morning. "We will not be occupied. We will not be overrun."

Trump delivered his first rally-style speech since his election victory, closing the conservative AmericaFest conference 2024 in downtown Phoenix with a speech that lasted slightly more than an hour.

[odinsblog]

None of Trump’s executive orders will lower gas prices; nor will they make groceries less expensive. They won’t make rent more affordable. Which is weird considering that all I’ve heard for the past few weeks was that the “people” who voted for him did so because he would improve the economy, and lower gas prices, and make groceries cheaper.

Nearly all of Trump’s executive orders have been punitive against non-white people, or to cut taxes & deregulate businesses owned by billionaires. Trump’s policies are either designed to A) enrich those who are already wealthy (if you do not pull at least seven figures, that is not you), or B) inflict harm upon non-cis/het white men. Only a willfully ignorant fool or a racist - yes, redundant, I know - would believe that Trump and the GOP care about “helping” anyone making less than a million dollars per year.

[porterdavis]

Logistics

Trump's promise to deport millions of immigrants was repeated often in the closing weeks of his campaign. Left to his own devices I suspect the project would recede into the background as his wall building did, outside of a few photo ops. This time will probably be different though because he will be coming into power with an entire cohort of zealots pre-selected and briefed on their roles, the Project 2025 brigade.

They will take their mission seriously (and not let Trump backslide on the promise). All of which begs the question -- how to round up, house, feed, transport and deport millions of people? Japanese-internment style camps in Oklahoma or Arizona? Who builds them, who operates them, who guards them, who pays for them?

How long will they be needed? Does anyone seriously expect Mexico to open its border to allow millions of people from all parts of South America into their country? Armed opposition seems a certainty. What is the exit strategy? The prospect of brownshirt troops roaming the night-time streets, breaking down doors to apprehend people of colour, both legal and undocumented with no rapid recourse to courts is not one that Americans of principle would long accept.

Soon the crops would lie rotting in the fields, factories and abattoirs would close for lack of workers, daycare centres would close, patients would lie untended in their nursing homes, prices of everything would rise.

Trump and his new friend Musk intend to burn everything down to the ground. We can only hope they do it quickly enough that the effect is obvious and immediate...no boiling of frogs....and there is time for men and women of honour to rise while there is still hope of resurrection.

Otherwise the great American experiment will collapse just as previous empires have, dragged down from within.

[ksenka-zarazka]

this keeps me up at night

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Kristen Welker and Alexandra Marquez at NBC News:

President-elect Donald Trump told NBC News on Thursday that one of his first priorities upon taking office in January would be to make the border “strong and powerful.” When questioned about his campaign promise of mass deportations, Trump said his administration would have “no choice” but to carry them out. Trump said he considers his sweeping victory over Vice President Kamala Harris a mandate "to bring common sense" to the country. "We obviously have to make the border strong and powerful and, and we have to — at the same time, we want people to come into our country," he said. "And you know, I’m not somebody that says, 'No, you can’t come in.' We want people to come in." As a candidate, Trump had repeatedly vowed to carry out the "largest deportation effort in American history." Asked about the cost of his plan, he said, "It’s not a question of a price tag. It’s not — really, we have no choice. When people have killed and murdered, when drug lords have destroyed countries, and now they’re going to go back to those countries because they’re not staying here. There is no price tag."

It's unclear how many undocumented immigrants there are in the U.S., but acting ICE Director Patrick J. Lechleitner told NBC News in July that a mass deportation effort would be a huge logistical and financial challenge. Two former Trump administration officials involved in immigration during his first term told NBC News that the effort would require cooperation among a number of federal agencies, including the Justice Department and the Pentagon. Trump's win included record gains among Latino voters, who Democrats had tried to capture by pointing to Trump's rhetoric on immigrants and a pro-Trump comedian's racist joke about Puerto Rico.

In Thursday’s phone interview, he partially credited his message on immigration as a reason he won the race, saying, "They want to have borders, and they like people coming in, but they have to come in with love for the country. They have to come in legally." Trump also noted the diverse coalition of voters he attracted, pointing to gains he made among Latino voters, young voters, women and Asian American voters from 2020.  "I started to see realignment could happen because the Democrats are not in line with the thinking of the country," the president-elect said. "You can’t have defund the police, these kind of things. They don’t want to give up and they don’t work, and the people understand that." Trump also spoke about his phone calls with Harris and President Joe Biden since the election.

Donald Trump gave an interview to NBC News, in which he pledged that there will be “no price tag” for his mass deportation plan.

[davidtennantgenderenvy]

I had the privelege to spend most of my day ignoring the inauguration but I’m so, so sorry for the people who didn’t. The people who are already fearing for their lives because of the current administration, who are making their intentions very, very clear. To wake up tomorrow knowing that people almost certainly WILL have their homes be broken into and their citizenship and livelihoods threatened is such a frightening thing.

[johnschneiderblog]

Who will rebuild L.A. ...?

I’ll give Sharon credit for making this point long before it showed up in the media. but it’s worth repeating.

From CNN: “… the prospect of mass deportations under President Donald Trump’s second term could lead to the loss of construction workers … and stands to seriously hinder efforts to rebuild the more than 12,000 structures estimated to be destroyed by the fires.”

Rebuilding L.A. will, of course, be a long, arduous process.

“Key to that endeavor,” says CNN, ”are the mostly undocumented day laborers who often do the physically taxing and dangerous work of clearing the rubble after a natural disaster recedes.”

(Gettyimages photo)

[ocmomandpopcultureenthusiast]

credit goes to jesscraven101

[saywhat-politics]

Daily Wire host likens Trump's mass deportation to the Trail of Tears, Japanese internment, and more: “Mass deportation is as American as apple pie”

Knowles: “Have you ever heard of the Trail of Tears? I know a lot of people don't defend the Trail of Tears. But that was a mass deportation.”

From the January 24, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show

[odinsblog]

[porterdavis]

Chapter and verse, here's the costs.

tl;dr: crippling, would plunge the country into a depression.