According to a report, President-elect Donald Trump is considering a plan to deal with countries that won’t take back their illegal immigrants: He will send them elsewhere. Some countries may be facing one unpleasant surprise:
The up-to-date Trump administration is preparing a list of countries to which it can deport migrants if their home countries refuse to accept them, according to three sources familiar with the plans.
Countries on the list included Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas, Panama and Grenada, among others, the sources said.
Since the report comes from NBC News, they go out of their way to suggest that the tactic would be unusually cruel:
The plans could lead to thousands if not hundreds of thousands of migrants being permanently displaced to countries where they know neither the people nor the language and have no connection to the culture.
Of course, many of these people have already gone to a place where they didn’t know the people or the language – the United States of America – when they crossed our border illegally. NBC neglects to mention this.
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But how would that work? There are many details to be clarified:
It is not clear whether migrants would be allowed to work and live legally in the countries to which they are deported. It is also unknown what pressure — be it economic or diplomatic — the Trump transition will put on countries to get them to agree, or what pressure it might bring when President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January starts.
Americans’ growing anger over illegal immigration played a enormous role in Trump’s victory in November, as the Biden-Harris regime effectively invited illegals to come to our country unhindered. Many polls showed that it was biggest concernparticularly among Republicans, and Trump has vowed to stop the flow and illegally deport millions who live here.
Countries that have long refused to take back their citizens a thorn in the side:
Foreign governments refusing to readmit deportees have long frustrated federal immigration authorities in multiple administrations. Instead of remaining incarcerated indefinitely, many of these individuals could simply be allowed back into the U.S., even if an immigration judge orders them deported.
Under the Biden administration, federal immigration authorities and major cities across the country experienced an unprecedented illegal immigration crisis. Dealing with this crisis has become more tough than Venezuela second highest Source of illegal immigration to the USA, stopped accepting Deportation flights in February.
Venezuela – where nearly 8 million citizens have fled the country under President Nicolas Maduro -, Cuba and China have in the past proven reluctant to accept deportees.
We’ll just have to see whether Trump ultimately pursues this plan or whether he is instead able to “convince” countries like Venezuela (i.e. give them a “deal they can’t refuse”) to take back their own people. One thing is for sure: He has no plans to sit idle like Biden-Harris and just watch the whole thing explode.
