Republicans Are Planning Their 2025 Crackdown on Immigrants
They’ll deport as many people as they can
Trump has said he’ll dismantle all of Biden’s immigration policy.
He’s putting Stephen Miller in charge of new immigration policy and Tom Homan in charge of the border.
He wants to stop granting U.S. citizenship to babies born in the US to unauthorized immigrants (“birthright citizenship”), though this interpretation of the Constitution has been in place for decades.
He’s eager to deport the estimated 11 million undocumented people currently in the US. Sometimes Republicans say 20 million.
Can he do it?
A president can’t deport people by snapping his fingers. It’s a process: Immigration enforcers identify people, judges order their removal, police find and detain them, and their countries of origin cooperate in receiving them.
For years — Kris Kobach being one of the earliest — Republicans have been talking about building “camps” on the border.
The Texas General Land Office has offered Trump space to build detention centers. The promised area is bigger than Manhattan’s Central Park: 1,400 acres (567 hectares), which is a couple square miles.
