Trump could deport millions if re-elected

Ông Trump có thể trục xuất hàng triệu người nếu tái đắc cử - 1 — Former US President Donald Trump (Photo: Reuters).

Axios reported on February 11 that if elected president later this year, former US President Donald Trump would seek to exploit a range of executive powers to deport "millions" of people in a crackdown on immigration.

Axios quoted a well-informed source as saying that during the second term of the Trump administration, the US will mobilize immigration officials, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and many other government law enforcement agencies to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.

Additionally, expedited deportations will be expanded to include people found to have crossed the border illegally and those who cannot prove they have lived in the US for at least two years, according to Axios .

Additionally, Axios said Trump would use a law that allows for the immediate arrest and deportation of immigrants with criminal records. Large sites would also be built to hold migrants awaiting deportation in areas near the southern border with Mexico.

Axios also notes that Mr. Trump could reimpose the “Muslim ban,” which restricts people from certain Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. President Joe Biden previously repealed the law when he takes over the White House from Mr. Trump in 2021.

On February 10, Mr. Trump - the most potential candidate for the Republican presidential nomination - announced that deporting immigrants will be one of the first tasks of his second term.

"On day one, I will end all of the Biden administration's open borders policies and we will begin the largest internal deportation campaign in American history. We have no choice," Trump declared at a campaign rally in South Carolina.

According to Axios , Mr. Trump's immigration program is likely to face opposition from Democratic lawmakers, as well as from Latino advocacy groups.

Additionally, financial analysts predict that removing undocumented immigrants from the workforce would hurt the U.S. economy , as well as stifle policies designed to curb inflation.

Mr Trump took a similarly aggressive approach to immigration during his four-year tenure in the White House from 2017 to 2021, although he deported fewer people during his presidency than his predecessor Barack Obama.

Last month, a Harvard CAPS-Harris poll found that immigration was the top issue on American voters' minds, ahead of inflation and the economy.

US officials said last month that the number of people caught illegally crossing the US border from Mexico hit an all-time high of 249,785 in December. The number of undocumented immigrants in custody rose to 6.3 million last year, up from just 3.7 million in 2021, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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