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                 Who Are the Undocumented



           Immigrants That Would Become




             Targets of Trump’s Deportation



                      Army If He Got Reelected









        BY CYRUS D. MEHTA          would be an unmitigated  states.                       Trump once called “shithole”  ployment authorization year
                                   disaster for families, the US   According to New York   countries. By raiding work-  after year. All these noncit-
            f Trump gets reelected,  economy and the standing of  Times’s columnist Jamelle   places and staging public  izens would be lumped to-
            he has hinted that his ad-  the United States.    Bouie in  Trump’s Taste for   roundups, this deportation  gether as undocumented
        Iministration will create a    “The Trump immigra-    Tyranny Finds a Target im-  force would create a climate  immigrants that would be
        deportation force that would  tion plan would be the sec-  migrants would be the most   of fear and intimidation.  red meat for Trump’s depor-
        deport 15  million undocu-  ond largest forced displace-  easy target for Trump to play   Mistakes are bound to  tation force.
        mented immigrants. Radley  ment of human beings in  out his autocratic fantasies.   happen as legal immigrants   Since it  would be be-
        Balko’s  newsletter on sub-  human history, on par with  Trump has already said that   and even US citizens may get  yond the capacity to quickly
        stack,  Trump’s Deportation  Britain’s disastrous partition  undocumented immigrants   caught up in the roundups.  deport the people caught up
        Army,  provides chilling de-  of India, and second only to  are “poisoning the blood of   There could not be any no-  in these roundups, especially
        tails on how this deportation  total forced displacement  this country.” The Supreme   tion of selective enforcement  since countries may not even
        would  be  executed,  which  during World War II, ” Balko  Court in Trump v. Hawaii   in these roundups, and those  be willing to accept them eas-
                                                                 allowed Trump to enforce   caught up in them would be  ily,  there  would  be  holding
                                                                  his Muslim ban.         because they appeared to be  facilities that would serve as
                                                                      Stephen Miller, the   immigrants. There would be  staging centers on land near
                                                                  architect of Trump’s an-  mass racial and ethnic profil-  the Texas border. This would
                                                                  ti-immigrant   policies,    ing. And by the time this gets  not be too dissimilar from in-
                                                                  has stated on Charlie   sorted out it may be too late  ternment camps, which were
                                                                  Kirk’s show  how this   if the person already got de-  set up in the United States to
                                                                  deportation force would   ported.                  detain Japanese Americans
                                                                  fulfill  Trump’s  fantasy.   Moreover, one thinks  after the attack by the Jap-
                                                                  The  deportation force   of an undocumented im-    anese military on Pearl Har-
                                                                  would comprise agents   migrants as a person who  bor in 1941.
                                                                  from Immigration and    entered the United States
                                                                  Customs Enforcement,    without inspection or who   In addition to the round
                                                                  the Drug Enforcement    came to the US legally on a
                                                                  Administration,   the   visa and overstayed. Howev-  ups, the second Trump
                                                                  Border Patrol and other   er, the term is broader to en-
                                                                  federal agencies, as well   compass persons who were   administration  would
                                                                  as the National Guard   previously unauthorized and   sign an executive order
                                                                  and local law enforce-  who have been authorized
                                                                  ment  officials.  They   to stay such as recipients  to withhold passports,
                                                                  would look all over the     of the Deferred Action of   social security numbers
                                                                  country for unautho-    Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
                     m of                                         rized and  undocument-  program,  applicants  for and other government
          CYRUS D. MEHTA & PARTNERS PLLC                          ed immigrants moving    Temporary Protected Sta-   benefits from  children
                                                                  from state to state, city
                                                                                          tus (TPS),  those who have
                                                                                             to city, neighborhood   pending asylum applications   born of undocumented
          
                          
  	                            
             to neighborhood and,   and applications for other
                                                                  finally,  house  to  house.   relief such as under the Vi- immigrants in the Unit-
             	                                 
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                                                                  the view of Trump and   (VAWA) or crime victim U
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              ‚                                                                                ed States never mind
                                                                  Miller do not belong,   visas.                     that the Fourteenth
                                                                  not that because are not   There are also those who   Amendment says the
                                                                  authorized but because   are on supervised release or
          2              6th Floor                                they are also nonwhite   who have obtained stays of   exact opposite.
                                                                  and who are from what   removal and eligible for em-
           
     
        	
     
         
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