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Originally Posted by scottytheoneand
He wouldn't need a law to start rounding up Latinos. It could be done using the current Immigration and Customs Enforcement structure. ICE already under Obama has been arresting and deporting 300k-400k people per year.
The problem with his claim that he'd deport 3,000,000 "criminals" is that even by the loosest of standards for what a "criminal" (like expired visas) is there are much less than 1 million people who would fall into that category. But Trump has been telling his followers that there are millions of such wicked criminals.
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That's really interesting, I didn't know that.
I just read that during Obama's tenure, his deportation numbers might be around 3.2 million - so if Trump is planning to deport that many over a presumed 8 year tenure, he'd just be continuing the same numbers as Obama?
Not that I'm presuming he'll be in office for eight years. But if he spins things that way in the media, it wouldn't exactly require any extra effort on his part.
I didn't realise that.