How Trump's Plan to Deport Criminal Illegal Aliens Would Work
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National Review Online, November 17, 2016
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Even as immigration-enforcement officers across the country are breathing what one deportation officer described as "a collective sigh of relief" following Donald Trump's election, the president-elect's announcement on 60 Minutes that he plans to start with the estimated two million criminal aliens has been met with a combination of scorn and skepticism, at least in the mainstream news media and illegal-alien advocacy circles. But Trump's enforcement approach is not only reasonable, it is very feasible, and will address the most disastrous failings of the Obama administration's faux-enforcement regime, which brought interior deportations to a 10-year low and caused the release of tens of thousands of criminal aliens back to our communities to reoffend, instead of back to their homelands.
Said Trump: "What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate."
Now, this statement is a significant softening in tone and scale from some of Trump's campaign statements, in which he suggested that the entire population of nearly 12 million illegal aliens could be subject to deportation. It's important to affirm that principle — that anyone here illegally is potentially at risk of being sent home — but it makes good sense to start with those who are also breaking other laws.
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