Raw Story: Trump's plan to defy 14th Amendment: No passports for children of undocumented parents

[Dennis Donovan]

Raw Story - Trump’s plan to defy 14th Amendment: No passports for children of undocumented parents

David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
November 19, 2024 7:34AM ET

Donald Trump has vowed to begin his mass deportations program on his first day in office, and confirmed early Monday morning he plans to declare a "national emergency" and use "military assets" to achieve his goal of removing "millions" of undocumented immigrants from the United States.

“On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get the criminals out,” Trump told supporters during his infamous Madison Square Garden rally last month.

But deporting millions is not the president-elect's only anti-immigration goal.

Trump's incoming White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, Stephen Miller, who is the architect of the "zero tolerance" family separation program in his first term, has bigger plans.

Miller, according The New York Times, has said that "military funds would be used to build 'vast holding facilities that would function as staging centers' for immigrants as their cases progressed and they waited to be flown to other countries."

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[Blue_Tires]

1. Just the same old word salad from Donnie

Because he has no idea whatsoever how things work...

[Tadpole Raisin]

2. Yes but the people around him do.

Here’s hoping they misjudge and step in it, big time.

[Lonestarblue]

8. He knows how things work. He just thinks he can get away with whatever he wants to do.

And once he is able to put hundreds more right-wing extremist judges in the federal court system, he may well find support for some of his crazier ideas, including the Supreme Court. The SC already nullified part of the 14th Amendment. What’s to stop them from nullifying birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants? I can also see Republican states forcing doctors and hospitals to refuse to issue birth certificates to babies to make their claims of citizenship harder.

[Walleye]

3. MAGA wet dream

[DFW]

4. Get the criminals out. I know who we could start with.

One has 34 felony convictions and the other was just forced to resign from the House with charges pending that are so embarrassing to the House that the Speaker is hiding them. The 34 felonies guy just mominated him for Attorney General.

If he could, Trump would nominate General Custer to head the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

[allegorical oracle]

5. There are rumblings that I've heard and read about how Miller intends to

go after naturalized citizens -- even if they've been in the U.S. for decades. Miller asserts that many naturalized citizens are illegal because they or their parents committed fraud on their paperwork and/or lied in interviews.

I take heart, 'tho, because this entire process is going to be complicated beyond imagination. Miller aims to locate, prosecute, house, feed, and transport upwards of 20 million people. And that's not counting the time-consuming, expensive judicial proceedings that will occur. The current expense estimate of such an endeavor is $90 billion. And at some point the Repukes will realize that they're deporting many of their own voters.

[atreides1]

6. Miller is a racist!

His hatred of anyone or anything Latino is ingrained into his entire being! He and Eichmann have more in common than some might think!

He will do everything the cheapest way he can, people will be used for slave labor, people will get sick, and people will die!

Everyone keeps thinking that this process is going to be normal, following the current law, maybe we need to stop applying normal and legal to this incoming administration!

[TheRickles]

14. Then he'd have to go after Musk too.

He came to the US on a student visa, dropped out of school, but stayed on. No repercussions until maybe now (just kidding).

[Johonny]

7. If they did this, tourism and immigration

Would dry up. No one is coming to a place under the fear you might be swept up into a concentration camp.

The only industry which would see a production boost is the judicial.

Meanwhile, they would be diverting huge resources from are actual real military missions to something the military isn't built for.

[Hope22]

12. Well sadly the cream of the crop will be sold off to the sex traffickers.

This isn’t T’s first rodeo on sorting people out. Last time he didn’t even bother to keep family member names together. They had zero intention of reuniting them. But I guess there was no crime done there.

[Sane1]

9. Don't Forget Melania!

Hope they investigate how Melania got her citizenship when they start making their lists.

[NotHardly]

10. There are 27 Amendments in the Constitution, trust me when I say he'll break every one of them

[Hope22]

11. If the rules are truly that fluid.....

It seems like we can choose to move January 20th back until he is thinking with his right mind!

[ificandream]

13. All those snowflakes that whimpered about Democratic taxes are gonna get a big surprise after January 20.

Trump's "immigration" plans are going to cost a ton.