NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–November 13, 2016
He meant what he campaigned on: Donald Trump hasn’t backed off his campaign vow to jail or deport millions, as President-Elect Pumpkinführer explained to 60 Minutes. As usual, it requires a flagrant set of lies.
“What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate,” Trump said in the interview. “But we’re getting them out of our country, they’re here illegally.”
The problem with this, aside from the obvious logistical problem of hunting American neighborhoods for 3 million people, putting them in prisons or newly built camps until their deportation can be arranged, then dumping them across the borders as a new wave of refugees—you know, aside from the barbaric monstrosity that just oozed from the man’s mouth—is that there are not three million undocumented immigrants with “criminal” records to jail or deport. It’s not even close.
The Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, estimates that around 820,000 undocumented immigrants have criminal records ― a figure that includes many people whose only conviction is crossing the border illegally. […][A] review by The Marshall Project of more than 300,000 recent deportations showed that the majority of deportees had no serious criminal record at all.
So he’s either vowing to deport millions with no criminal record other than being in the country without papers or he’s lying about the rest of it. We don’t know. The only thing we know will happen is that Trump’s plan will further allow undocumented residents to be victimized by crime.
Because Trump’s plan appears to rely on local police forces to detain undocumented persons in each community, the pressure on those residents to not report crimes against them, from wage theft to hate crimes to open assault, will become even more immense. They will truly be stripped of any practical protection of the law; they will be treated by victimizers as having no more rights than the robots on that television show America is currently so enamored with—and if undocumented residents are indeed terrified of being deported by an eager Trump administration, it will be true. They will not willingly admit to witnessing crimes, or testify about them, or report them.
Far from being incidental, this particular side effect is welcomed by many in Trump’s orbit; the threat of deportation has long been “good” for businesses that use those workers on the sly, certainly, but others applaud the notion of undocumented life in America becoming so hostile or dangerous that those families may flee the nation of their own volition.
It is indeed a monstrous agenda, but is precisely what Trump promised his voters he would do.
Source: http://dailykos.com
