Former American President donald trump detailed to Time magazine on Tuesday, the 30th, the new mass deportation plan that he plans to implement if he achieves victory in the November elections and returns to command of the White House. After avoiding controversial topics, such as abortion and forgiveness to those involved in the invasion of Capitolhe raised the anti-immigration flag and accused, as is customary, those who arrive illegally of being criminals or of having been institutionalized in their countries of origin, without presenting any evidence.
“I don’t believe this is sustainable for a country, what is happening to us, with probably 15 million and maybe even 20 million [de imigrantes] when Biden leaves. Twenty million people, many of them in prisons, many of them in prisons, many of them in mental institutions. I mean, you see what’s happening in Venezuela and other countries. They are becoming much safer,” he told Time.
In total, the Republican plans to remove 11 million immigrants from the US — there were more than 200,000 illegal Brazilians there in 2021, according to a Pew Research survey, released at the end of last year. The yellow-green advance represents an increase of 54% compared to 2016 data, the research added. They make up around 2% of undocumented immigrants in American territory, and will also be targeted by Trump.
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Trump’s plan
To expel them, the American candidate said he was “willing to build migrant detention camps and send US military personnel, both on the border and inland,” said the Time report. He also stated that he plans to resume measures from his former mandate, including the Remain in Mexico program and Title 42, revoked by Biden in May 2023.
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The first requires non-Mexican, Spanish-speaking citizens to be sent to Mexico while awaiting an asylum trial — in 2020, the NGO Human Rights Watch stated that the initiative “exposes children and their parents, asylum seekers, to serious risks of aggression, mistreatment and trauma while awaiting hearings on their cases.” The second, in turn, allows immigrants to be expelled before filing an application. The measure was implemented amid the Covid-19 pandemic to supposedly control the health emergency.
The former president explained that he would count on the support of the National Guard to arrest illegal immigrants and that, if these agents were unable to do so, “he would use [outras partes do] army”. He is then asked whether the hunt is against the Posse Comitatus Law of 1878, which prohibits the use of force against civilians. Trump counters that the people in question are “not civilians” because they are “not legally” in the country.
“We will use local law enforcement. And we will definitely start with the criminals that are coming. And they are arriving in numbers we have never seen before. And we have a new category of crime. It’s called migrant crime. Yeah, ugh, you see it all the time,” she added.
Additionally, Trump criticized President Joe Biden. He said that the Democrat “didn’t want to install the wall [na fronteira com o México] that was already built and could have been erected, hundreds of miles of additional work could have been erected in a three-week period. He then committed to “completing” the work, arguing that “as you build, you discover that you need it” and that “the walls work.”
