CBC article attached. Trump’s plan to initiate massive deportations of undocumented immigrants was described by a migration expert in these terms: “it would be incredibly expensive, incredibly disruptive to the U.S. economy, it would take decades, and it would be almost impossible to implement.” But that’s not the point here. The point is that what matters isn’t what some bumbling Trump administration bureaucrats are able to achieve, but the fear and panic that it would create in the migrant population in the US that by some estimates may be as high as half the entire population of Canada. In many cases it would even rip apart families of undocumented migrants married to Americans or who have American-born children.
Trump’s bigoted hate of immigrants in general and undocumented migrants in particular already caused significant problems during his previous presidency when Temporary Protected Status (TPS) was cancelled for Haitians who had escaped the earthquake devastation and certain migrants from Central America who were similarly homeless because of Hurricane Mitch.
Yet even these relatively mild measures caused a major influx of fearful migrants into Canada, particularly along the New York - Quebec border. The city of Montreal had to set up the huge Olympic Stadium as temporary accommodations for many of them. But this time, the number of migrants potentially trying to get into Canada by any means possible could be an order of magnitude greater.
Tom Homan, a like-minded Trump acolyte and bigot who may well be the next head of Homeland Security if Trump is elected, was quoted as saying “They ain’t seen s— yet” … “Trump comes back in January. I’ll be on his heels coming back, and I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen.”
And Canada may not even be able to send them back to the US. Trump and his thugs have never played by the rules and have zero respect for international law. They might just refuse to take them back.
All of these people – Trump, Vance, Homan – just exude evil at a level reminiscent of the rise of the Nazis in the 1930s. This is no longer hyperbole.