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Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans have been attacked in the home newspaper

Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans have been attacked in the home newspaper

Donald Trump’s pledge to deport all illegal immigrants from the United States was condemned in an editorial by the Miami Heraldhis home newspaper, which said there were “practical, legal and economic reasons” why the plan would fail.

Appearing last Sunday on Meet the press In his first post-election interview, the president-elect said he had “no choice” but to deport those who entered the U.S. illegally, although he acknowledged that deportation would be “a very difficult thing to do.”

The Department of Homeland Security estimated that 11 million migrants were in the US illegally on January 1, 2022, up from 10.5 million two years earlier. Trump has made a crackdown on illegal immigration through deportations and the completion of a wall along the Mexican border a key piece of his 2024 election campaign.

In the editorial, the HeraldAndres Oppenheimer wrote: “President-elect Donald said in his first post-election TV interview that he would deport everyone in the United States illegally, which would mean more than 12 million people. it doesn’t happen.

“There are practical, legal and economic reasons why Trump will not be able to come even close to deporting the millions of people he has promised,” Oppenheimer said.

He argued that Trump’s plan would fail for three reasons, first citing American Immigration Councilwhich says an “extremely conservative estimate” for the cost would be $315 billion.

Deporting “all undocumented immigrants would have a huge economic cost,” particularly to the construction, hospitality and agriculture sectors, Oppenheimer said. Third, he pointed out that during Trump’s first term, only a few kilometers of the wall were built along the border with Mexico, which Mexico did not pay for, despite Trump’s campaign pledge. since 2016 that it will.

Asked for comment, Trump-Vance transition spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Newsweek: “President Trump has received a mandate from the American people to stop the invasion of illegal immigrants, secure the border, and deport dangerous criminals and terrorists who make our communities less safe.

Leavitt, 27, will be the next White House press secretarythe youngest person in US history to hold this role.

Deportation of undocumented migrants is discussed Meet the press Trump said: “I think you have to do it. It is a very difficult thing to do. It’s—but you have to have, you know, have rules, regulations, laws. They came illegally.

“You know, the people who have been treated very unfairly are the people who have been online for 10 years to come into the country,” he said.

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President-elect Donald Trump looks ahead to a Dec. 7 meeting with the French president in Paris. Trump’s plans to deport immigrants were attacked in an editorial in the Miami Herald, his home newspaper.

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Trump also said his priority would be to “get the criminals out of our country,” but insisted that was just the starting point. “We start with the criminals and we have to do that. And then we start with others and we’ll see how it goes.”

Asked to clarify who the “others” were, he said: “Others are people other than criminals.”

During the interview, Trump also said he wanted to terminates birthright citizenshipwhich he cataloged as “ridiculous”, through the executive action.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Grahama Trump ally, said last Sunday that he was drafting legislation to end birthright citizenship. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), called it “one of the biggest magnets for illegal immigration”.

Birthright citizenship is the law under the Constitution, and any attempt to change it would almost inevitably be met with legal action. Changing the Constitution itself would require a two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress and ratification by 38 state legislatures.

In an interview with Time magazine, who named Trump 2024 Person of the Year, the president-elect said he would consider building detention camps to detain migrants pending deportation. “Whatever it takes to get them out. I don’t care. Honestly, whatever it takes to get them out,” he said.

“If there’s a need for new camps, but I hope we don’t need too many because I want to get them out and I don’t want them sitting in the camp for the next 20 years,” Trump added.