What 'Mass Deportation' Actually Means

[Coventina]

If you didn’t think they were serious before, you certainly ought to know better now.

Donald Trump’s team has construed his victory as a mandate for carrying out what it has described as mass deportations. Even before Mr. Trump announced a nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, he named Stephen Miller, an immigration hard-liner, as deputy chief of staff and homeland security adviser, and Tom Homan (who was the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during part of Mr. Trump’s first term) as a White House-based czar to oversee “all deportation of illegal aliens back to their country of origin.”

It is tempting to assume that after his first term and four more years of planning, Mr. Trump and his administration will find no obstacles to impose their will swiftly and completely.

But that’s not true. No executive order can override the laws of physics and create, in the blink of an eye, staff and facilities where none existed. The constraints on a mass deportation operation are logistical more than legal. Deporting one million people a year would cost an annual average of $88 billion, and a one-time effort to deport the full unauthorized population of 11 million would cost many times that — and it’s difficult to imagine how long it would take.

So the question is not whether mass deportation will happen. It’s how big Mr. Trump and his administration will go, and how quickly. How many resources — exactly how much, for example, in the way of emergency military funding — are they willing and able to marshal toward the effort? How far are they willing to bend or break the rules to make their numbers?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/opinion/trump-mass-deportation-immigration.html

[live love laugh]

1. It will be the equivalent of the wall. Half assed; sensationalized by

Republican corporate media heads; and most importantly, a vehicle to funnel tax dollars into their pockets.

[Thunderbeast]

2. Lobbyists from ag, food processing, and construction will kill this effort in the cradle

When big money is on the line, Republicans will find an escape hatch from these draconian policies.

Do they really think that cutting benefits for the elderly, disabled, and poor will motivate them to pick crops or become roofers?

[getagrip_already]

3. Planning? There has been no planning. There will be no planning.

There will be press conferences. There will be tee vee appearences. They will make declarations.

They wont know what they are doing. They will do anything the pundits tell them to. Anything pootie tells them to.

But it will be just like covid. The clueless leading the fools.

And the only thing you can count on will be cruely, misery, and death.

[wnylib]

4. One way to cut the cost and number of vehicles

is to not deport them. Just turn them over to private prisons or camps. Recoup money spent on rounding them up by hiring them out for unpaid labor. Leave them there indefinitely.