Recently, Trump told NBC there is “no price tag” on his plans to launch mass deportations as soon as he comes into office, projected by some to cost nearly $1 trillion over ten years. This news comes as Trump is pushing for mass detention and deportation which is likely to backfire on the U.S. economy. In 2018, the Trump administration intended to indefinitely detain migrant families together without plans to reunite separated children as part of his family separation policy.
Two of the architects of this and other cruel policies have been selected to serve in key appointments for the coming administration, overseeing Trump’s threatened mass deportation. Stephen Miller, former Trump advisor, and Thomas Homan, former head of ICE, have both been associated with white supremacy groups, the former holding openly virulent anti-immigrant views since before his involvement in government and the latter appearing on far-right podcasts laughing at the notion of 22 million mixed-status families of this country suffering as a result of the policies proposed by the Trump campaign.
Former senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller is reportedly set to be appointed deputy chief of staff for policy. Miller is an avowed white nationalist and the engineer of Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. During the first Trump Administration, Miller assisted in the creation of the muslim ban and family separation policy, and supported the termination of DACA – the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. He was the main proponent of many policies that focused on restricting legal immigration into the United States, such as those that cut refugee admissions to record lows, attacking the U.S. asylum system, and denied green cards to those considered likely to seek public assistance in the future. Miller, speaking at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, was quoted saying, “Seal the border, no illegals in, everyone here goes out.”
Trump has also chosen Thomas Homan, former acting director of ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to serve as his supposed “border czar.” Homan has stated that Trump’s mass deportation campaign could also target U.S.-born children who were born to undocumented parents. ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt states this would be patently illegal, as rights groups prepare to fight Trump’s mass deportations. Homan was also essential in the creation of the family separation policy of Trump’s first administration. When he was at the head of ICE, he shifted the focus from human trafficking and terrorism investigations to deportation of women and children in the United States without authorization. In a recent interview on 60 Minutes, when asked by interviewer Cecilia Vega if there was a way to carry out mass deportations without separating families, he responded simply, chillingly, “Of course there is. Families can be deported together.”
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