By Aaron Miller-
Former President Donald Trump has re-iterated a campaign promise to launch “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” which could tear apart millions of American families that are a mix of citizens and noncitizens.
In an interview with Time magazine published this week, Trump vowed to rid the country of people without legal permission to be here. He said he would first use the National Guard and local police, and then the military if warranted, to force the immigrants “back from where they came.”
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“These are people that aren’t legally in our country. This is an invasion of our country. An invasion like probably no country has ever seen before,” Trump told Time.
”What’s happening to us, with probably 15 million and maybe as many as 20 million by the time Biden’s out. Twenty million people, many of them from jails, many of them from prisons, many of them from mental institutions.”
It was done by Obama in a form of jails, you know, prisons,” he said.
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Trump was referring to building migrant detention camps. The Obama administration did hold undocumented migrants in detention facilities. In spring 2014, there was a wave of illegal border crossings by migrants fleeing Central America
While Trump often mentions migrants who have recently crossed the border into the U.S., the reality is that a big part of undocumented immigrants have deep-seated roots in the country and an operation targeting them would have significant ripple effects in American society.
Here are some of the numbers:
There are about 20 million people in households with mixed immigration statuses, including about 10.3 million people who are undocumented and 9.7 million others who are either citizens or other immigrants with a form of legal permission to live in the U.S., according to Pew Research Center data.
There are about 825,000 undocumented children who are 17 years and younger in the U.S., according to the data.
Additionally, there are more than 3.4 million undocumented immigrants in the country with U.S.-born children younger than 18. Some fear Trump’s planned overhaul in the event of an election success, will lead to multiple incidences of destabilization in many families.
His supporters will see it as the necessary remedy for growing and unchecked immigration in the U.S
Trump has been the center of controversial court cases, the most recent being the Hush which alleges that he sought to influence the U.S elections by paying out $300, 000 dollars.
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