Inside Team Trump's Plans For Mass Deportation Camps
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-deportation-camps_n_66e4793de4b03e3cc10020c3
Five years ago, Kris Kobach, Kansas former secretary of state, announced on Fox Business Network that, in order to quickly deport undocumented immigrants seeking asylum in the United States, the Trump administration would need camps.
Or, as he also put it, processing towns.
The U.S. government owns thousands of empty mobile home trailers, Kobach told host Lou Dobbs, and it should deploy them to border cities and create processing towns that are confined. People who cross the border seeking refuge in the United States, he said, should be detained there until their claims are rejected, then promptly expelled from the country.
Kobach, then the general counsel of a private border wall-building effort two former leaders of which later went to prison for defrauding donors was a lonely voice at the time. But in the years since, the Trump wing of the Republican Party has come around to his point of view.
Key allies and advisers arent mincing their words: In order to carry out Trumps mass deportation agenda, the United States will need enormous prison camps for immigrant families, part of an effort to deport millions of people at a record pace.
The mass deportation operation will be a bloody story, Trump said last weekend. And key advisers have promised a historic infrastructure project to churn people out of the country.
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