Quote (zorzin @ Nov 6 2024 02:20pm)
Inside Trump's plan for mass deportations - and who wants to stop him
Donald Trump is expected to mobilize agencies across the U.S. government to help him deport record numbers of immigrants
Trump backers - including some who could enter his second administration - anticipate the Republican president-elect will call on everyone from the U.S. military to diplomats overseas to turn his campaign promise of mass deportations into a reality. The effort would include cooperation with Republican-led states and use federal funding as leverage against resistant jurisdictions.
But a deportation operation targeting millions would require many more officers, detention beds and immigration court judges. American Immigration Council, an immigrant advocacy group, estimated the cost of deporting 13 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally as $968 billion over a little more than a decade.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/inside-trumps-plan-mass-deportations-who-wants-stop-him-2024-11-06/Yay or nay?
Yay
Cost can be cut drastically via the deputization of volunteer citizens
Zero tolerance policy for unlawful resistance, lethal force authorized
Reuters is not trustworthy about costs & the action required