Posted on 08/17/2015 8:24:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump told host Chuck Todd of Meet the Press that he would deport all illegal aliens if he were elected president. “They have to go,” he told Todd.
“We’re going to keep the families together, but they have to go,” he said in the interview, which will air in full on NBC’s “Meet the Press” this Sunday.
Pressed on what he’d do if the immigrants in question had nowhere to return to, Trump reiterated: “They have to go.”
“We will work with them. They have to go. Chuck, we either have a country, or we don’t have a country,” he said.
Speaking on Trump’s gilded private plane as it idled on a runway in Des Moines, Iowa, the real-estate mogul and Republican presidential frontrunner offered the first outlines of the immigration policy proposals he’d implement from the Oval Office.
Trump said, to begin, “we have to” rescind Obama’s executive order offering those brought to the U.S. illegally as children — known as DREAMers — protection from deportation, as well as Obama’s unilateral move to delay deportation for their families as well.
“We have to make a whole new set of standards” for those immigrating to the US.
The comments are certain to further inflame already fierce opposition from Latino activists and advocacy groups. They’ve been critical of Trump’s candidacy from the start, when he kicked off his campaign with a speech that accused Mexico of sending “criminals” and “rapists” to the U.S.
Trump was hazy on the details of his deportation plan. Presumably it would be legal, which means amending the Constitution to make it possible to deport so-called “anchor babies” — children born in the U.S. of illegal parents. Either that, or simply allow anchor-baby families to remain in the U.S. and grant them legal status.
Somehow, I doubt he would employ that option.
Then, there is the due process that illegal aliens have a right to, according to the law. They can’t be deported without it, and with 11 million court cases coming, he might want to think of increasing the number of immigration judges by a factor of about a thousand. Or perhaps we could change the law and deny illegals due process.
Of course, we’d have to round them all up to deport them. “Papers, please” will become an American catchword in the near future if Trump wins. And where would we keep them all? Jails are already seriously overcrowded so maybe we can build some “camps” — you know, like all totalitarian regimes have — to keep the illegals penned up until their hearing.
Repealing Obama’s executive orders are fine, although there would be a court challenge on behalf of DREAMers because they’ve already been given legal status. Other steps that could be taken include putting some teeth in employer sanctions for hiring illegals, and making it much harder for cities to defy immigration law so that ICE can deport criminals.
As for the rest of the 11 million illegals, Trump is right. “We either have a country or we don’t have a country.” It’s just that Trump’s idea of what America is and what it stands for is as alien as any illegal who jumps the border.
Rick Moran is a whiner - again
If there are no benefits to being an illegal then the illegals will self-deport. President Eisenhower did it and so can the next President.
Exactly. Dems will start up with the old “it’s impossible to fairly deport these people” BS.
Simple. Enforce the I-9 requirement for working ( it is the law). Cut off all welfare for illegals and they will go back home.
RE: Rick Moran is a whiner - again
Can we please deal with his question instead of attacking the man?
Went over to PJ media,,this little article is getting trashed.
Excellent.
Offer 40 acres and a mule ( plus a refrigerator, generator, and flat screen) to anyone who goes voluntarily with all their family
After all don’t children deserve to be raised in their rich cultural heritage of Mexico? Why are all these rasist acting like Mexico is hell on earth?
Chuckie!! ...They Go Back From Where They Came!!
...start over again, legally this time.
Enforce the laws now on the books. Heavily fine employers who employ illegals. Without jobs most will leave on their own and open the jobs for US citizens. Change welfare laws, to no workee, no payee.
Yes - they should return to their own “exceptional” country. Didn’t the great and wise president once say that EVERY country was exceptional?
EASY BREEZY BEAUTIFUL once the patriots get in the cockpit. A few knob adjustments. Criminal liability for govt officials failing to comply. Tax breaks for E-Verify users. IRS linked to employers not rigged to E-Verify. All turns of knobs-fine tuning. Use ICE AGENTS for those who are found to be criminal, those who skipped court dates, check-ins, States encouraged to notify ICE of all ID THEFT cases...find and deport. All linked to crime.
Furthermore Trumpster should team up with WalMart and Home Depot to build some mega malls down there in every region that is sending people here
Give them jobs and air conditioned shopping and Cinemax, let em get building supplies from Home Depot to build houses , let em buy the cars they build
What if Mexico was like Canada? We damn sure tried to make Iraq into Canada and the logistics here are a whole lot easier
Revoke Obama's "Dreamer's Amnesty"!
Penalize Sanctuary Cities.
No Driver's Licenses
No Welfare.
Hefty fines for employers of illegal aliens.
Make them beg to go home.
Oh yeah...open up TORT NEGLIGENCE for victims of ID THEFT-employers caught using a stolen SS# can be held liable for damages. Victims get the cash from employers. More jobs for law school graduates.
Trumpster could turn half of Mexico into golf courses, casinos and luxury resorts
Let them clean pools and tend gardens in their own country
Cut off the incentives and they will self-deport. Start with strict border enforcement. Then, speed up the process by adding incentives such as $1000 payments to be deposited in a country of their destination and a free plane ride home for the first million or so to apply for these free plane rides and waive their rights. Gradually reduce the payment until it is zero, but they get a free bus ride home. Then, finally, crank it up to full prosecution, hard jail time, finger printing, disqualification from future entry and asset seizures if they insist on dragging it out. The carrot and the stick. Take your pick.
Yeah, OK. All these police shootings of young black men “These have got to stop”.
Does anyone squat on their pedestal of superiority and ask “what is the means of achieving this?”
No, because the answer has been iterated 1,000 times: Family integrity, parental involvement. Proven. Demonstrated. And yet the aspiring black teenager, the football kid or the one graduating from sophomore year local college, shot down in gang violence is another common story but those, the aspiring ones, they don’t get memorials set up in the street with a four hour prayer vigil for the four minutes his corpse was flopped in the gutter....certainly not any more than the neighborhood thug or drug dealer. So the criminal is idolized every bit as much as the aspirational one. Special, isn’t it? All black lives matter but not all black deaths matter.
Because these superior, uninvolved intellectuals can offer their opinion on Trump from behind their shield of self-assumed intellectual superiority. But they are cowards.
Logically its really quite simple place a bounty on each of their deportations to the INS payable to state and/or local authoritative. In essence pay state and local goverments for every illegal alien they capture and turn over to the IRS.
If these people are so hard working as the bleeding hearts claim, then let a Captain of Industry get them working
In Mexico
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