We already have laws on the books to deport Illegals…What Are the Grounds of Deportability?
The grounds of deportability are found in Section 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (I.N.A.). For example, non-citizens can become deportable if they:
Commit certain types of crimes, most notably an aggravated felony; domestic violence; a crime of moral turpitude (CMT) committed within five years after being admitted to the U.S. or getting a green card, if the prison sentence was for at least one year; or two CMTs not arising out of a single scheme of criminal misconduct.
Fail to advise USCIS of their changes of address within 10 days of moving.
Are discovered to have committed marriage fraud.
Helped smuggle other aliens into the U.S.
Are or have been drug abusers or addicts, or have been convicted of any drug-related violations other than other than a single offense involving possession of 30 grams or less of marijuana for personal use.
Have committed document fraud
Have falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen.
This is just a quick overview of these grounds – do not rely on this list to analyze your case, but look at the law itself, linked to above, and consult with an experienced U.S. immigration attorney. Also note that despite the seriousness of being accused of being deportable, some grounds can be overcome by requesting a waiver.
Already Done - Trump will simply follow the laws on the books…(a) Making employment of unauthorized aliens unlawful
(1) In generalIt is unlawful for a person or other entity—
(A) to hire, or to recruit or refer for a fee, for employment in the United States an alien knowing the alien is an unauthorized alien (as defined in subsection (h)(3)) with respect to such employment, or
(B)
(i) to hire for employment in the United States an individual without complying with the requirements of subsection (b) or (ii) if the person or entity is an agricultural association, agricultural employer, or farm labor contractor (as defined in section 1802 of title 29), to hire, or to recruit or refer for a fee, for employment in the United States an individual without complying with the requirements of subsection (b).
Except it can be exceptionally hard to prove that an employer knowingly hired illegal immigrants if the labor is paid entirely in cash with no records or when an illegal immigrant uses a fake name and someone else’s (legitimate) Social Security number and is successfully cleared via the E-verify system.
If solving this problem were that easy, it would have been done by now. Thinking that a magic wand or flick of a law enforcement wrist is going to make it go away is fantasy thinking, which Trump specializes in.
By restating the reasoning behind the support for this issue in such great detail, he was perfectly able to avoid the substance of the question, which is “how is this going to be brought about?”
Nice try, though. At least he spoke in complete sentences.
Per the ICE website, they removed approx. 230,000 illegal immigrants in fiscal year 2015. This is down about half from the peak a few years ago, largely due to decreased traffic across the border. Of this FY2015 number, about 160,000 were people who were removed after getting caught near or on the border. ICE does not have the financial resources, manpower, or physical detention facility capacity to locate, arrest, detain, and process one million illegal immigrants let alone the suspected figure of around 11 million. Enlarging ICE (and likely Customs and Border Patrol as well) to do this would likely take $20 billion or more. This would not include the attorneys, judges, and court staff increase needed to handle them all in immigration court, which also would not be a small number. Has Trump mentioned this at all? Why not?
Trump has also proposed increasing the size of the military, getting more planes and ships, not touching entitlements, subjecting the U.S. to potential trade wars with China and others, building the wall, rebuilding infrastructure, and paying down the national debt. The land of make believe is a nice place to visit, not sure it’s going to be as nice living there.
Simple (and we’ve already covered this): he said we’re going to START within one hour. And in that quote, he’s specifically referring to criminal aliens. He covered this in his big immigration speech too:
I don’t have personal experience with E-Verify, but employers submit info that is checked against a database. I don’t know how accurate the database is or how much info it contains. I have seen cases where an illegal immigrant has bought the name/DOB/SSN of a person and used that for E-Verify. In that case, it was only discovered when the actual person received an extra tax bill. In another case, several individuals at a single employer all used the same name/DOB/SSN of someone real. From my understanding, E-Verify just determines the status of the info received but it is not set up to detect or otherwise alert anyone for fraud like that.
What does that even mean? The U.S. has encouraged legal immigrants to come to the U.S. for quite a while and its overall refugee policies are fairly long standing as well.
If you’re taking about Syrians, for all of the Trump talk of “extreme vetting,” it is pretty conspicuous that Trump or anyone else has said anything close to what more that would entail than we are already doing. Just playing an air electric guitar after processing the paperwork and doing the already mandatory interview? The only thing he has even remotely mentioned is asking a few more questions about whether they are Islamic radicals and whether they are tolerant of LGTBQ issues. How some simple questions would prevent a sleeper radical militant from just lying to get in is a pretty obvious.
If you’re talking about Latin Americans, then Obama has deported more ilegals than any president before him.
Your cite is specifically about CHILD migration–a significant increase in border crossings by unaccompanied minors. That has both different causes and different solutions than border crossings by people looking for jobs, and there’s no particular reason to believe an increase in kids equals an overall increase.
And even at the current level, significantly reduced from 2010-2012, the Obama Administration has ALREADY deported more illegal aliens than any prior presidential administration, so ganthet is correct. In fiscal years 2009 to 2014, the government deported 2,427,070 people (see table 39); add in 235,413 and perhaps another 200,000 or so for the current fiscal year, and that’s more than the 2.6 million deported during the entire 20th century, McKinley to Clinton combined, and slightly more than Bush 43’s record of 2 million in FY2001-2008.