Trump’s goal of mass deportations fell short. But he has new plans for a second term
Republican presidential candidate would begin largest deportation programme in US history if he wins November election, his campaign said
Donald Trump has long pledged to deport millions of people, but he is bringing more specifics to his current bid for the White House: invoking wartime powers, relying on like-minded governors and using the military.
“What Trump seems to be contemplating is potentially lawful,” said Joseph Nunn, counsel at the Brennan Centre for Justice at New York University’s School of Law. “There might not be a lot of legal barriers. It is going to be logistically extraordinarily complicated and difficult. The military is not going to like doing it and they are going to drag their feet as much as they can, but it is possible, so it should be taken seriously.”
The Trump campaign, asked how his pledge would be carried out, said Trump would begin the largest deportation programme in US history, without elaborating in detail. Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman, said Trump “would marshal every federal and state power necessary to institute the largest deportation operation of illegal criminals, drug dealers, and human traffickers”.
How would Trump overcome inevitable legal challenges?
