Protests during Trump's presidency against measures he took against immigrants, especially Muslims (Reuters)
Former US President and likely candidate for the Republican Party in this year's elections, Donald Trump,'s plan to eliminate immigration includes relying on a set of tools to deport millions of people from the United States every year.
This involves the use of vague laws and the exploitation of military funds, as well as the use of law enforcement officers from all levels of government, according to the American website Axios.
The importance of these measures, according to Axios, is that they would significantly disrupt local communities and economies across the United States, as well as instill fear among millions of people who do not have legal status.
Axios quoted an insider as saying that if Trump were elected, he would mobilize Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, along with the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, federal prosecutors, the National Guard, and even state and local law enforcement officers, to carry out deportations of illegal immigrants.
Axios highlighted that Trump has long focused his election campaign on anti-immigrant concerns, and said at a rally last month: “They are poisoning the blood of our country,” a sentence he keeps repeating, according to this site.
Express deportations - now reserved for new crossers who are stopped near the border - will be expanded to include anyone who crossed the border illegally and cannot prove that they have been living in the United States for more than two years, according to the website.
Axios also noted that Trump will limit the usual multi-step deportation process by using vague provisions of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 to immediately arrest and deport some immigrants with criminal histories, and the military will build massive sites near the border to detain people awaiting deportation.
The website added that these measures would remind the world of scenes from the 1950s, when more than a million undocumented Mexican immigrants were deported under President Dwight Eisenhower.
It was the largest deportation operation in US history, and used military-style tactics to detain and shelter about 1.3 million people from Mexico, including even some Mexicans who were US citizens, according to federal immigration records.
Regarding the cost of the aforementioned Trump plan, the site says that it is not clear, and that there are many doubts about his ability to implement it, especially since Trump, who made similar promises in the past, deportation levels during his presidency never reached what they were during the era of his predecessor Barack Obama.
Analysts say the human costs of Trump's plan — to families, community economies, employers and others — could ripple across the country.
Source: Axios