Trump’s militarized removals could cost billions while upending the economy and ripping families and communities apart

Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to carry out the “largest deportation operation in American history,” deploying federal, state and local law enforcement to arrest, jail and deport potentially millions of people living in the country without legal permission.

A militarized operation would depend on detention camps to hold people marked for removal, and would invoke a centuries-old law previously used to detain Japanese Americans during the Second World War.

President-elect Trump told NBC News on Thursday, two days after defeating his Democratic rival Kamala Harris, that he has “no choice” but to implement large-scale deportations when he takes office in January.

  • SJ0@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
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    6 days ago

    The whole “while upending the economy” thing is really obnoxious.

    I’m so sorry that your illegal wage slaves are going away and you’ll have to offer legal residents living wages. My heart bleeds purple piss for you.

    The other thing I find insufferable is the whining about billions of dollars in cost. The federal debt in the US is 32 Trillion dollars, or 32,000 billion dollars. Every presidential administration for 24 years has increased the federal debt every single year, and for the most part the media doesn’t care one lick. But suddenly it’s something they don’t want and they’re hyperfocused on the cost. It’s like “Hey Ace! A trillion dollars of the federal budget went to the banks to pay for interest on all that debt! Why do you only care about the cost of things once?”