During the election campaign, President-elect Trump promised many times that he would carry out the largest mass deportation of illegal aliens in American history.

Although it may seem like an extreme position, it is a movement supported by a the majority of voters including a decent number of Democrats. There is simply no willingness to continue to drain public resources for people who cross the threshold and ignore America’s laws.

According to one new report from the Wall Street Journal (here it is non-paywall version), Trump’s transition team is already filling in the details and preparing immediate actions on day one that will first begin the process of eliminating violent criminals and then continue down the line:

President-elect Donald Trump’s advisers are drawing up plans to follow through on his mass deportation pledge, including discussing how to pay for it and weighing a national emergency declaration that would allow the incoming administration to repurpose military assets to detain and remove migrants.

The behind-the-scenes talks, which began months before the election and resumed in the days after Trump’s victory, include policy changes needed to increase deportations, according to people working on the presidential transition, members of Congress and others close to them. elected president.

Among the changes: rolling back a Biden administration policy that ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to pursue illegal immigrants in the country who have not committed other crimes and making changes to the immigration court system to expedite cases. Trump allies have said they plan to focus first on immigrants in the country illegally who have received final orders of deportation from an immigration court, of which there are about 1.3 million, as well as those with other convictions or charges criminal.

The beauty of such a move is that Trump does not need new laws enacted to enforce existing laws on the books. With the appropriate executive actions, he can rearrange deportation priorities for those already on the list and simply speed up the process.

Part of the plan involves an emergency declaration that would free up military resources:

As a first step, Trump’s aides are discussing issuing a national border emergency declaration on his first day in office, which his team believes would allow him to shift money from the Pentagon to pay for the wall and help detention and deportation of immigrants. . But the legality of such a move is unclear. A national emergency, Trump’s advisers believe, would also unlock the ability to use military bases to detain immigrants and military aircraft to help carry out deportations.

Despite pearl-clutching Democrats who consistently prioritize the well-being of illegal immigrants over the well-being of American citizens, the public is generally supportive of the move.

As for the costs associated with the plan, Trump has made it quite clear that it’s not about the costs, it’s about enforcing the law and ending the chaos, according to NBC News:

Asked about the cost of his plan, he said: “It’s not a question of price. It’s not – really, we have no choice. When people killed and killed, when drug lords destroyed countries and now they will return to those countries because they will not stay here. There is no price tag.”

The price for such a move would undoubtedly be a fraction of the money we sent to Ukraine or wasted on non-essential government pork. It’s a pot move to secure our southern border and begin restoring order to America’s cities. As Trump says, we have no choice if we want to maintain national sovereignty.

Trump is also preparing to revive other parts of his previous immigration policies that have been largely successful in deterring illegal border crossings:

Officials in Trump’s first administration have also written draft executive orders to resume border wall construction and revise President Biden’s existing restrictions on asylum at the southern border to eliminate humanitarian exemptions. They plan to enter into aggressive negotiations with Mexico to revive the stay-in-Mexico policy, said a person working on Trump’s transition and identifying potential safe third countries where asylum seekers could be sent.

It’s a political idea and something that needs to take shape sooner rather than later.

Instead of acting shocked that Trump is already working on this problem, Democrats should instead explain to people like Patty Morin, a mother who lost a child at the hands of a criminal illegal alien, why she’s wrong to expect better from her government:

This is Patty Morin. Unlike Kamala’s rally speakers…

She doesn’t have a record deal
She doesn’t live in a mansion
She is not a movie star
She is not a billionaire

She is the mother of Rachel Morin, who was brutally murdered by an illegal that Kamala left in America. Listen… pic.twitter.com/qRpOrC0Iix

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) November 4, 2024