Former President Donald Trump joined Newsmax’s The Chris Salcedo Show on Monday morning and vowed not only to begin “mass deportations” on day one if returned to the White House but to also somehow make sure local police have additional immunity while rounding up migrants.
“Given the fact that no foreign national has a right to be here in the United States, will you order mass deportations if you win the White House?” host Chris Salcedo asked the GOP frontrunner.
“Oh, day one. We have no choice. And we’ll start with the bad ones. And you know who knows who they are: local police. Local police have to be given back their authority, and they have to be given back their respect and immunity. We’re going to give them immunity,” Trump added. Notably, the federal government has little influence over local police.
“And they know them by their first name, the middle name, and the last name, and they will take them out and they will, we will get about. And look, this is not sustainable by any country, even if they weren’t as bad as they are. This is not sustainable by any country. We probably have, I think I heard your numbers, I think you probably have 15 million in actually, which is more than your numbers, and I think that number could reach 20 million people by the time this guy gets out.”
“Wow,” added a credulous Salcedo.
“We have to get him out if we don’t get him out. I don’t think we’re going to have a country left,” Trump said, repeating a common line of attack he uses against President Joe Biden.
The Washington Post reported on Trump’s plans for deportations last month, including a historic model Trump and his allies have been looking to use. The Post reported:
Trump pledges that as president he would immediately launch “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” As a model, he points to an Eisenhower-era program known as “Operation Wetback,” using a derogatory slur for Mexican migrants. The operation used military tactics to round up and remove migrant workers, sometimes transporting them in dangerous conditions that led to some deaths. Former administration officials and policy experts said staging an even larger operation today would face a bottleneck in detention space — a problem that Trump adviser Stephen Miller and other allies have proposed addressing by building mass deportation camps.
Watch the clip above via Newsmax.
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