Seem to me one must have willing countries to receive the deported. I can see how one might surreptitiously dump a few dozen on a beach at night, but millions? How?
Presumably, their home countries must accept them back. Once they’re rounded up, they can be concentrated in camps until they are transported.
No, some countries resist taking back its citizens who have been deported from another country.
https://www.ice.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Speech/2016/ragsdale-160714.pdf
It isn’t always that simple. There are a number of countries that won’t cooperate with deportations. China, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Cuba, and others.
To legally deport someone they need that person’s documentation - passport, birth certificate, etc. If their native country refuses to issue those papers we can’t just send them there and leave them at the bus station. In such cases the state department has the option to deny visas to anyone wishing to visit the US from a recalcitrant country until that country cooperates, but that has very seldom if ever been done.
We can’t hold people in custody indefinitely in a camp waiting for some country to issue them papers. ICE only has the ability to hold someone beyond a set legal limit in very specific cases like terrorism or other violent crimes.
I got it, Johnny L.A..
Well, maybe we needn’t be in a hurry to repatriate them. I mean, once we have the camps, we might as well put them to work. And we can adopt the efficient feeding and housing practices perfected by our fine correctional corporations. The best thing is, this approach pays for itself. Finally! A solution to the problem of illegal immigrants!
A final one, if you will.
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The other issue that has to be resolved is that unless the deportation is voluntary or not contested, they would have to be afforded due process through immigration court proceedings. Sending one or more million through the system would break it or at the very least slow everything to a near-halt unless the system itself was drastically (bigly) expanded.
And prior to that, you would also need to drastically expand ICE/CBP or some other federal agency that would be responsible for locating and detaining illegal immigrants who weren’t caught at or around the border.
Probably won’t happen, a lot of those guys will fight back & it won’t be worth the risk. They have weapons. Trying to Shanghai them south of the border won’t end well.
The work will set them free!
Simple: you can’t.
You can, at least the numbers he is quoting. Obama deported about 400k in one year, I’m sure Trump could bump that to 500k if he tried. That would put him in the 2-3 million range he claimed in his first two years. You’d have to really stretch the range of “criminal” to make that work though.
I agree. For convenience’s sake, we should Shanghai them here instead.
Simple. Make life here so miserable, they beg to go back.
Hmm. If a guy claims to be an illegal immigrant from Canada, how closely will they check? Asking for a friend.
Huh. So, in a way, Mexico would be paying for the wall.
Not right away, but Obama during his term deported a couple million. And he wasn’t doing even close to all that can be done.
Millions of brown people in camps because they don’t have papers? How will you tell them apart? Perhaps a tattoo of a bar code or number or something would help.
If their country won’t take them back, then we let them go on condition they stay out of trouble, BUT, we actually retaliate against countries that do this to us. We can deter this kind of behavior and we should. And immigrant criminals should just be kept in prison until their country takes them back.
Trumpists will argue that all undocumented persons are criminals, because they broke the law just by coming here. I have actually heard this argument.