And the expulsion of the Moriscos didn’t work out very well for Spain. The expelled population happened to be the most productive agriculturalists in the country, and also included most of the best craftsmen/artisans. The expulsion resulted in a bunch of excellent, arable land with nobody left to work it productively, and a major decline in quality, exportable manufactured products.
Ah, I was probably thwarted by using “1 year” in my search. I just did a search on “2 years” and found this:
12-24 months, at least in that quote from about a year ago.
76 million people go through O’Hare each year (2015 stats). If people can be “persuaded” to leave voluntarily, I don’t think a mass exodus over a year or two would be a strain on the transportation system. (It would massively disrupt the economy, however.)
I guess the question is whether from a legal standpoint congress could pass a law severely shortening the deportation process, or whether it would be found unconstitutional?
I’m thinking that challenges to Canada’s deportation process have produced multi-year backlogs, and we don’t have anywhere near the problem the USA does. Most problems in Canada are with bogus / questionable refugee claims. Once a person claims to be a refugee, the whole process has to be followed to determine the truth of that claim… then appeals, etc. I think that Canada now has a list of countries you cannot claim to be a refugee from, not sure how that one played out in the courts.
Of course, the advantage Trump would face concerning refugees, is that most people who have been in the USA several years might have difficulty claiming/proving they are still in danger where they came from.