Former President Trump said Thursday that local police officers will be at the center of his second-term plan to mass deport immigrants who entered the United States illegally.
“We have to deport a lot of people and we have to start immediately,” President Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview from Eagle Pass, Texas, near the southern border. .
“We don’t have a choice. It’s up to the local police to do it,” he added.
President Trump has lamented the treatment of law enforcement and vowed to grant immunity to police officers so they can go after illegal immigrants. He suggested that local police know the whereabouts of migrants who should be deported.
“The local police will turn them over and we will send them back to their country,” Trump said.
If re-elected, President Trump has promised to launch the largest deportation operation in decades to remove immigrants who have crossed the border illegally. He has repeatedly cited the Eisenhower administration’s deportation efforts through a program known as “Operation Wetback,” which used military tactics to round up immigrants.
The Biden camp is It was called a proposal. “Racist, un-American, and incompetent.”
The former president spent much of his first term cracking down on illegal immigration, pushing for a wall along the southern border, implementing a Remain in Mexico policy, and overseeing a family separation policy that was ultimately halted in the face of bipartisan criticism. spent. .
Trump has once again put immigration at the center of his campaign in the run-up to the November presidential election. He visited the border on Thursday and met with local law enforcement and Gov. Greg Abbott (R), blaming President Biden’s policies for the surge in migrants and recent high-profile violence involving migrants. did.
Biden also visited the border on Thursday, visiting Brownsville, Texas, where he met with Border Patrol agents and urged Republican lawmakers to pass a bipartisan Senate proposal to strengthen border security.
“We need to act. It’s time for the Speaker and our Republican friends in Congress who are blocking this bill to show some spine,” Biden said.
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