Source: The UnPopulist
by Robert Tracinski
“If Trump is able to implement even part of his mass deportation plan, many previous stains on America’s soul will pale in contrast. The Trail of Tears forcibly deported 100,000 Native Americans from the Southeast to the West. During World War II, the U.S. government interned 120,000 Japanese Americans, most of them U.S. citizens. Obama, whose deportation policy was more severe than any president in history (including Trump in his first term) deported around 3 million undocumented immigrants (though at least he focused on those with criminal records). None of these episodes gets even close to the 20 million people that Trump is now proposing to eject without any due process. If Trump manages to implement his mass deportation in full, it will approach in scale some of the crimes we associate with totalitarian regimes.” (10/24/24)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-mass-deportation-plans-will