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Do Americans who support mass deportation, detention camps know what it would be like?

The writer Radley Balko--who was years ahead of the pack on the issue of militarized policing in America-- wrote in his newsletter back in May that Trump's call to deport 15 million immigrants would round up more people than experts believe are currently in the United States without documentation (likely closer to 11 million). To reach that target, Trump's mass deportation would likely include millions now here legally " the "Dreamers" brought to America as children, others currently with protected status such as Haitians, even family members of the undocumented.

The 15 million figure, Balko noted, is larger than the entire population of Pennsylvania. It would be the largest forced migration of human beings since " you guessed it " World War II. The size of the operation to deport this many people would be similarly unbelievable. He noted that the most conservative cost figures for deportation bring a price tag of at least $210 billion, or more than we spend on the entire U.S. Army. The logistics of buses, housing, and other necessary infrastructure both for migrants but also Trump's deportation army are incomprehensible.

"You don't even try something like this unless you aspire to have an authoritarian government behind you," a Tennessee immigrant-rights advocate, Lisa Sherman Luna, told Balko. "You're talking about soldiers marching through neighborhoods across the country, pulling families out of their homes."

"Mass Deportation is family separations on steroids to the infinite power."

Well, not exactly:

On Sunday, Tom Homan, the one-time cop and former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under Trump, appeared on 60 Minutes to sell the plan as not potentially catastrophic. Homan, the "architect" of family separation who said he didn't "give a ----" about being sued over the infamous practice, has been defiantly positioning himself as the man to get the job done.

"Trump comes back in January, I'll be on his heels coming back, and I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen," he said at the National Conservatism conference in Washington, DC, in July. "They ain't seen ---- yet. Wait until 2025."

Cecilia Vega asks: "Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without separating families?"

"Of course there is. Families can be deported together," says Tom Homan, head of ICE during Trump's family separation policy.

"In a stunning announcement, after distancing himself from Project 2025, Donald Trump announced he will appoint Tom Homan (Project 2025's author) on day 1."

Please explain how deporting a US citizen to another country will actually work?
Posted by truthhurts

I don't know. It sounds like they will give people an option: If you want to stay together as a family, we will deport you together.

Stunning? I don't think you know what that word means.
#10 | Posted by truthhurts

It wasn't my word. It was the Harris campaign's, and I think it was meant as sarcasm.

If Trump gets elected and tries to carry out his plan, lots of MAGA Latino voters are going to be saying, "Oh, I didn't think he meant me, my husband, my mother, my cousin." It will be a very cruel and life-changing revelation that comes too late for some of them:

Trump's deportation army

The former president's vow to deport 15 million people is the cruelest, most illiberal, most openly authoritarian campaign promise in modern U.S. history. Oh, and it would also destroy the economy.