According to a report, President-elect Donald Trump is considering a plan to handle countries that won’t take their illegal immigrants back: he’ll ship them somewhere else. Some countries may be in for an unpleasant surprise:
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The incoming Trump administration is preparing a list of countries to which it may deport migrants when their home countries refuse to accept them, according to three sources familiar with the plans.
The countries on the list have included but may not be limited to Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas, Panama and Grenada, the sources said.
Since the report comes from NBC News, they go out of their way to imply that the tactic would be unusually cruel:
The plans could mean that thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of migrants would be permanently displaced in countries where they do not know any of the people or the language and have no connection to the culture.
Of course, many of these folks already went to a place where they did not know the people or the language—the United States of America when they unlawfully came across our border. NBC neglects to mention that.
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How would this work, though? There are a lot of details to be worked out:
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It is not clear if the migrants would be allowed to legally remain to work and live in the countries to which they are deported. It is also not known what kind of pressure — either economic or diplomatic — the Trump transition is applying to countries to get them to agree, or might apply once President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated in January.
Americans’ increasing displeasure with illegal immigration played a huge part in Trump’s victory in November, as the Biden-Harris regime virtually invited illegals to come into our country unfettered. Many polls showed it was a top concern, especially among Republicans, and Trump has vowed he will stop the influx and deport millions who are living here against the law.
Countries that refuse to take back their citizens have long been a thorn in our side:
Foreign governments that refuse to take back deportees have long frustrated federal immigration authorities in multiple administrations. In lieu of remaining in detention indefinitely, many of these individuals may simply be released back into the U.S., even if an immigration judge has ordered them to be removed.
Under the Biden administration, federal immigration authorities and major cities across the country experienced an unprecedented illegal immigration crisis. Management of this crisis was made more difficult when Venezuela, the second-highest source of illegal immigration into the U.S., stopped accepting deportation flights in February.
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Venezuela—where nearly 8 million citizens have fled the country under President Nicolas Maduro—Cuba and China have shown themselves to be resistant to accepting deportees in the past.
We’ll just have to see if Trump does end up pursuing this plan or if instead he’s able to “convince ” (i.e., give them a “deal they can’t refuse”) countries like Venezuela to take back their own people. One thing is certain: he’s not planning on sitting idle like Biden-Harris and just watching the whole thing explode.