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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue May 28, 2024, 01:57 PM May 2024

What Trump would deliver in promise of mass deportation

Jamelle Bouie / The New York Times

Among the worst episodes in American history are those moments when the federal government deploys the full weight of its power against the most vulnerable people in the country: the Trail of Tears and the Fugitive Slave Act in the 19th century and Japanese internment in the middle of the 20th, to name three.

If he is granted a second term in the White House, Donald Trump hopes to add his own entry to this ignominious book of national shame.

Trump’s signature promise, during the 2016 presidential election, was that he would build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico. His signature promise, this time around, is that he’ll use his power as president to deport as many as 20 million people from the United States.

“Following the Eisenhower model,” he told a crowd in Iowa last September, “we will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/bouie-what-trump-would-deliver-in-promise-of-mass-deportation/

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What Trump would deliver in promise of mass deportation (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2024 OP
I estimate our store would lose no_hypocrisy May 2024 #1
I'm still looking for the American fruit picker who lost their job to an immigrant. --seen on FB CrispyQ May 2024 #2
The article is a must read. dalton99a May 2024 #3

CrispyQ

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2. I'm still looking for the American fruit picker who lost their job to an immigrant. --seen on FB
Tue May 28, 2024, 02:31 PM
May 2024

So many industries will be hugely disrupted, I wonder if Big Business is paying attention?

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