In a word, Y-E-S
Trump Isn’t Bluffing, He’ll Deport 11 Million People
"Legally, there’s nothing to it.
"Trump doesn’t need an act of Congress.
"He doesn’t even have to sign an executive order.
"All he’ll have to do to set this outrage in motion is pick up the phone and tell the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to do his or her job: enforce the law.
"Camps cost money. So do more agents. No problem.
"President Trump can shift his budget priorities in favor of ICE.
"He’s already said he would triple ICE’s enforcement division from 5,000 to 15,000 officers.
"The FBI would have to pitch in."
Sure, the optics of the biggest forced population movement since Stalin would present problems, and it isn't too likely countries of origin would be thrilled about receiving millions of bitter, unemployed new arrivals, but could Trump actually deliver on his promise?
What happens to his administration if he can't?
Frankly, it amazes me how conservatives can embrace the worst ideas on the world with no concept of what the costs or the ramifications would be.
Forget for a minute what the impact to the economy would be as millions of workers would end up leaving jobs that would then go unfilled.
I could start almost anywhere. What about all the possessions (including the homes) of illegal aliens? Would they be forced to give them up? Would they be confiscated? What would happen to the housing markets in various places in the country if and when illegals were evicted en masse? How do you think the people who own those properties would react?
What about illegal residents who have American-born American children who have never lived anywhere else in their lives? Should they go back to a foreign country with their parents, or should we break up families?
Then there's a factor I've never heard anyone mention. What about the terrorism that this action might very well spark when young men take up arms to fight the deportation of their families?
Then there's the bad PR that would come as a result of setting up what would essentially be camps to house the illegal aliens prior to deportation.
Has anyone thought of the cost? Has anyone stopped to think about the cost of the US Govt flying 11 million people out of the country. Or are we going to have trains to deport Mexicans like the Germans used to transport the Jews? That's another PR disaster.
15,000 ICE employees? That's hardly enough as that translates to 733 aliens for each and every worker, and not all ICE agents are in the field.
Conservatives never seem to think through the issues they embrace which is the very reason they always govern the country into some kind of disaster as the presidency of Bush showed. Then a Democrat has to clean up the mess even as conservatives accuse him of destroying the country.