We’re now in the last few days before the second Donald Trump presidency.
As a candidate who ran and won with strong promises on the border, the eyes of the world are upon him.
Will there be a mass deportation of illegal aliens?
People on both sides of the issue are jockeying for position. The time is growing near.
Here is an assortment of news reports about the transition:
KICKING OFF WITH A D.C.-AREA WORKPLACE RAID?
Where will the Trump detentions begin? NBC reports on this possibility:
“The incoming Trump administration is considering conducting a high-profile raid targeting undocumented immigrants in its initial days… The raid could target immigrants allegedly living in the United States illegally at a workplace in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area…”
Now wouldn’t that be awesome?
MEXICO PREPARES FOR TRUMP
Mexico has been breaking up migrant caravans, but remember that it’s quite common for caravans to disintegrate before reaching the border anyways. It doesn’t mean the individual migrants don’t make it to the border. Of course, there’s not much time left to get there before Trump takes office.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has accepted the fact that she is going to take back Mexican deportees and, after some hesitation, even non-Mexican deportees.
But simultaneously, Mexico, with its enormous consular network on U.S. soil, is preparing to gum up the works with lawfare and prevent or delay the deportations of as many illegals as possible. [See: US Neighbors Plotting Ways to Thwart Deportation of Their Citizens]
“CULTURE OF FEAR” AT UNIVERSITIES
U.S. colleges and universities have an estimated 408,000 illegal alien students, with 100,000 in California alone.
A headline on The Hechinger Report declares, “‘There’s a culture of fear:’ Undocumented college students agonize as Trump term nears.”
Boo-hoo!
The article includes an unintentionally comical anecdote about an “undocumented” student who “recently attended an off-campus career fair where ICE was recruiting students to be future agents. ‘Obviously I felt unsafe.’”
Don’t be surprised if many universities try to thwart deportation.
WHAT ABOUT COUNTRIES THAT REFUSE DEPORTEES?
Will the home countries of deportees take them back?
Newsweek published a world map showing countries that might resist deportations from the United States, including Russia, India, Afghanistan, Iran and Brazil.
Of course, there are levers that can be used with some countries, like threatening to cut off aid. But it might not work with countries that don’t receive much U.S. money.
Think about it: the countries that refuse their own deportees are saying they don’t want their own people back.
REPUBLICAN FOOT-DRAGGING
Unsurprisingly, some prominent Republicans are already sabotaging Trump’s deportation plans.
Example: On Jan. 5, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) was on “Meet the Press.”
NBC’s Kristin Welker asked Thune, “Do you support that plan to deport everyone who is here illegally?”
In reply, Thune went on and on without answering the question, though he is in favor of deporting criminals and those ordered deported by the Biden administration.
Why can’t Thune just answer in the affirmative – “Yes, every illegal alien is subject to deportation” – and leave it at that?
MAYORKAS GRANTS TPS EXTENSION TO 850,000 ILLEGALS
In a parting shot from the Biden administration, delivered 10 days before Jan. 20, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas granted an 18-month TPS extension to 850,000 illegal aliens, including 600,000 from Venezuela and 234,000 from El Salvador.
TPS stands for “Temporary Protected Status.” It’s a program which grants “temporary” deferment of deportation for illegal aliens from countries which just had a hurricane or earthquake or something of that nature.
However, the “temporary” delay goes on and on for years after the natural disaster. Now it’s just another form of illegal alien amnesty that gets renewed from time to time as new excuses are offered up.
The 18-month extension would last until the middle of 2026, well into the second year of the Trump administration.
DEEP STATE NOT DEAD…
According to RMG Research conducted in December, 42% of federal government managers said they would resist the Trump administration.
Think about it. These people are paid by the American taxpayers.
You can find more of Allan Wall’s work at his website and Mexico News Report.
