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In his campaign rallies, he has adopted strong anti-immigration rhetoric, even stating that foreigners "poison" the blood of the United States and proposing plans ranging from mass deportations to the construction of giant centers to detain undocumented migrants.
Mass Deportations
Trump has repeatedly promised at his campaign events that if he returns to the presidency, he will carry out the "largest deportation operation" in the history of the United States.
To achieve this, the federal government would seek help from National Guard reservists, detailed Stephen Miller, the chief ideologue of Trump's xenophobic proposals, just three days ago during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
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According to Miller, Trump would deploy the military to the border to deny entry to those who need to apply for asylum and would automatically deport those attempting to cross back into Mexico.
Trump has cited the "Operation Wetback," executed in 1954 by then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower, as an example of this type of deportation, which resulted in the deportation of over a million people, mostly Mexicans.
Giant Detention Centers for Migrants
To carry out this apocalyptic operation, the Trump campaign has hinted at its plans to build large centers to detain migrants and then expel them from the United States.
The idea would be to establish "large-scale" facilities where migrants would wait to be deported with continuously scheduled expulsion flights, explained Stephen Miller at the CPAC conference, who previously advised Trump during his term and could return to the White House.
However, the legality of these centers could be challenged in the courts, as was the case with some of Trump's more radical plans when he was in the White House.
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Anticipating these legal challenges, Trump promised to invoke a section of the immigration and sedition laws passed by Congress in 1789, which give the president greater power to deport and detain non-U.S. citizens in times of war.
This law was used during World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to establish internment camps where thousands of Japanese migrants and their U.S.-born descendants were detained.
The Trump campaign has not specified how many migrants would be subject to these policies. However, it is estimated that currently 11 million undocumented migrants live in the United States.
Family Separation
Trump also did not rule out the possibility of separating migrant families arriving at the border, a policy he implemented during his time in the White House.
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During an appearance on CNN last year, Trump admitted that the idea of separating families "sounds tough," but then added, "When you tell families that if they come, we're going to separate them, they don't come. And we can't afford to have more."
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responsible for immigration has acknowledged that 4,227 children were separated from their families during the Trump Administration.