What Trump Really Means When He Threatens To Deport Americans
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There’s no legal way to expel Americans from their home country. Trump wants the public to think otherwise.
In a Sunday interview with NBC News, President-elect Donald Trump repeated what is becoming one of the incoming administration’s most provocative talking points: When parents of U.S. citizens face deportation, his administration will deport the whole family together.
“I don’t want to be breaking up families,” Trump said when asked how mass deportation would impact America’s roughly 4 million mixed-status families. “The only way you don’t break up the family is you keep them together and you have to send them all back.”
Trump’s threat appears to take immigration enforcement into uncharted ground. There is no mechanism to deport U.S. citizens, regardless of their parent’s status.
It also remains to be seen whether Trump’s bluster is just an off-the-cuff remark from someone with a hazy grasp of the details or will amount to actual policy. Tom Homan, who headed Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Trump in 2017 and has been tapped to serve as his “border czar,” made a similar claim in an interview with “60 Minutes” in October, then tried to walk back his comments in a later interview with conservative talk show host Sean Hannity.
But if Homan and Trump are serious about removing American citizen children along with their parents, they’ll face one major hurdle: ICE won’t have the authority to do so.
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