Wrong. I suggest you read the plan a little closer. No one is suggesting mass deportation, but Trump is proposing greater enforcement of our laws and new ones to shut off the job magnet.
2. A nation without laws is not a nation. Laws passed in accordance with our Constitutional system of government must be enforced.
Triple the number of ICE officers. As the President of the ICE Officers’ Council explained in Congressional testimony: “Only approximately 5,000 officers and agents within ICE perform the lion’s share of ICE’s immigration mission…Compare that to the Los Angeles Police Department at approximately 10,000 officers. Approximately 5,000 officers in ICE cover 50 states, Puerto Rico and Guam, and are attempting to enforce immigration law against 11 million illegal aliens already in the interior of the United States. Since 9-11, the U.S. Border Patrol has tripled in size, while ICE’s immigration enforcement arm, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), has remained at relatively the same size.” This will be funded by accepting the recommendation of the Inspector General for Tax Administration and eliminating tax credit payments to illegal immigrants.
Nationwide e-verify. This simple measure will protect jobs for unemployed Americans.
Mandatory return of all criminal aliens. The Obama Administration has released 76,000 aliens from its custody with criminal convictions since 2013 alone. All criminal aliens must be returned to their home countries, a process which can be aided by canceling any visas to foreign countries which will not accept their own criminals, and making it a separate and additional crime to commit an offense while here illegally.
Detention—not catch-and-release. Illegal aliens apprehended crossing the border must be detained until they are sent home, no more catch-and-release.
Defund sanctuary cities. Cut-off federal grants to any city which refuses to cooperate with federal law enforcement.
Enhanced penalties for overstaying a visa. Millions of people come to the United States on temporary visas but refuse to leave, without consequence. This is a threat to national security. Individuals who refuse to leave at the time their visa expires should be subject to criminal penalties; this will also help give local jurisdictions the power to hold visa overstays until federal authorities arrive. Completion of a visa tracking system – required by law but blocked by lobbyists – will be necessary as well.
Cooperate with local gang task forces. ICE officers should accompany local police departments conducting raids of violent street gangs like MS-13 and the 18th street gang, which have terrorized the country. All illegal aliens in gangs should be apprehended and deported. Again, quoting Chris Crane: “ICE Officers and Agents are forced to apply the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Directive, not to children in schools, but to adult inmates in jails. If an illegal-alien inmate simply claims eligibility, ICE is forced to release the alien back into the community. This includes serious criminals who have committed felonies, who have assaulted officers, and who prey on children…ICE officers should be required to place detainers on every illegal alien they encounter in jails and prisons, since these aliens not only violated immigration laws, but then went on to engage in activities that led to their arrest by police; ICE officers should be required to issue Notices to Appear to all illegal aliens with criminal convictions, DUI convictions, or a gang affiliation; ICE should be working with any state or local drug or gang task force that asks for such assistance.”
End birthright citizenship. This remains the biggest magnet for illegal immigration. By a 2:1 margin, voters say it’s the wrong policy, including Harry Reid who said “no sane country” would give automatic citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants.
Like Cruz, he advocates lots of get-tough policies, but he doesn’t actually kick out the 30 million mostly low-skill, government-dependent, Leftist-leaning illegals who, by chain migration would muultiply to 90 million of the same.<
The proponents of amnesty are wont to create the false choice between a blanket amnesty and mass deportation of 12 to 30 million illegal aliens. In reality, we have other choices and alternatives that don’t reward people who have broken our laws with the right to stay and work here and an eventual path to citizenship. The 12 to 30 million illegal aliens did not enter this country overnight and they will not leave overnight. Attrition through enforcement works. We have empirical data from Georgia, Oklahoma, and Arizona proving that it does.
Trump is avoiding a trap by proposing mass deportation--a huge logistical nightmare and politically unsellable. Many of the illegals will leave if we cut off the magnets of jobs and welfare. We don't have to round up 30 million people all at once. The concerted enforcement of our laws at all levels using the force multiplier of leveraging state and local law enforcement will make living illegally in the US more unattractive and unsustainable.
What Trump proposes far exceeds anything that any other candidate proposes. Trump is linking jobs to legal immigration. He wants to reduce legal immigration significantly by allowing "record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages."> Those historical levels are around 200,000 a year compared to 1.1 million annually now. This is revolutionary and refreshing.
....”Attrition through enforcement works”.....
Indeed! ...that needs to be posted again and again.
I am of the mind that many illegals will be moving about a lot in order to avoid deportation or being caught. This happened before when they were concerned of being deported.... they spread out among the states, often using a type of underground railroad. They have “organizors” who alert them to states favorable or not to them and weak enforcement.
Yeah, like Cruz he proposes lots of policy improvements—but legalization for the nearly 30 million who are here currently but not otherwise previously convicted of crimes will lead to 90 million of the same, via chain migration—and then inevitable citizenship.
E-verify only really make a difference if it is required retroactively on all employees in the country.